NDLI: Test Inspected Unit or Inspect Unit Tested Code?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gupta, A. Jalote, P.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Indian Inst. of Technol., Kanpur (Gupta, A.; Jalote, P.)
Abstract	Code inspection and unit testing are two popular fault- detecting techniques at unit level. Organizations where inspections are done generally supplement it with unit testing, as both are complementary. A natural question is the order in which the two techniques should be exercised as this may impact the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the verification process. In this paper, we present a controlled experiment comparing the two execution-orders, namely, code inspection followed by unit testing (CI-UT) and unit testing followed by code inspection (UT-CI), performed by a group of fresh software engineers in a company. The subjects inspected program-units by traversing a set of usage scenarios and applied unit testing by writing JUnit tests for the same. Our results showed that unit testing can be more effective, as well as more efficient, if applied after code inspection whereas the later is unaffected of the execution- order. Overall results suggest that sequence CI-UT performs better than UT-CI in time-constrained situations.
Starting Page	51
Ending Page	60
File Size	434148
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19386451
DOI	10.1109/ESEM.2007.52
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-09-20
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Performance evaluation Fault diagnosis System testing Measurement units Automatic testing Inspection Writing Software measurement Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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