An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Software Test Smells and Fault-Proneness

Test smells have been defined as indicators of poorly designed tests. Their presence negatively affects the maintainability of a test suite as well as the production code. Despite the many studies that address the negative impacts of various test smells, until now there has been no empirical evidenc...

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Main Authors: Abdallah Qusef, Mahmoud O. Elish, David Binkley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8847402/