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<div class="csl-entry">Winkler, D., Urbanke, P., & Ramler, R. (2022). What Do We Know About Readability of Test Code? - A Systematic Mapping Study. In <i>2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)</i> (pp. 1167–1174). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00135</div>
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dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/142571
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dc.description.abstract
The readability of software code is a key success criterion for understanding and maintaining software systems and tests. In industry practice, a limited number of guidelines aim for improving and assessing the readability of software (test) code. Although several studies focus on investigating the readability of software code, we observed limited research work that focuses on the readability of software test code. In this paper we focus on systematically investigating the characteristics, factors, and assessment criteria that have an impact on the readability of test code. We build on a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) to identify key characteristics, factors, and assessment criteria that have an impact on test code readability, legibility, and understandability to support and improve maintenance tasks. The result set includes 16 studies for further analysis. The majority of publications focuses on readability investigations of automatically generated test code (88%), often evaluated with surveys to access the readability of test code (44 %). Although several approaches aim at assessing the readability with focus on isolated factors, a combination of different readability aspects within an assessment framework can help to better assess and justify the readability of test code with focus on improving software and system test maintenance.
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dc.description.sponsorship
CDG Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft; CDG Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
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dc.language.iso
en
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dc.subject
Maintainability
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dc.subject
Readability
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dc.subject
Software Testing
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dc.subject
Systematic Mapping Study
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dc.subject
Test Code
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dc.subject
Un-derstandability
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dc.title
What Do We Know About Readability of Test Code? - A Systematic Mapping Study
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dc.type
Inproceedings
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Konferenzbeitrag
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978-1-6654-3786-8
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dc.description.startpage
1167
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dc.description.endpage
1174
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CDL SQI
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Full-Paper Contribution
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tuw.booktitle
2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
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true
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IEEE
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Verbesserung der Sicherheit von Informationsprozessen in Produktionssystemen
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I2
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I4a
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Computer Engineering and Software-Intensive Systems
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Information Systems Engineering
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50
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50
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E194-01 - Forschungsbereich Software Engineering
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tuw.publisher.doi
10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00135
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8
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0000-0002-4743-3124
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SANER 2022: 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
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FFG
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BMK
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dc.description.sponsorshipexternal
BMDW
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dc.description.sponsorshipexternal
Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital Economic Affairs
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dc.description.sponsorshipexternal
National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development
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dc.relation.grantnoexternal
865891
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tuw.event.startdate
15-03-2022
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tuw.event.enddate
18-03-2022
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Online
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Event for scientific audience
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Honolulu, HI
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US
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Winkler, Dietmar
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Online
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Informatik
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Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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1020
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5020
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90
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10
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Inproceedings
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Konferenzbeitrag
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restricted
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Publications
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http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf
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no Fulltext
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CDG Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
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CDL SQI
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E194 - Institut für Information Systems Engineering
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E194 - Institut für Information Systems Engineering
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E194 - Institut für Information Systems Engineering