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| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Titel des Sammelwerks | 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015 - Proceedings |
| Seiten | 1-8 |
| Seitenumfang | 8 |
| ISBN (elektronisch) | 9781450338189 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 1 Sept. 2015 |
| Veranstaltung | 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015 - Bergamo, Italien Dauer: 1 Sept. 2015 → … |
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| Name | 7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015 - Proceedings |
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Abstract
Inexperienced developers, for example new graduates joining a software development company, have dificulties applying their software testing knowledge. They lack handson experience and often have a dismissive attitude towards systematic testing, which hinders their adoption of testing activities. If the novice cannot quickly adopt a healthy testing culture during the onboarding phase, her progress as a high-quality engineer may be hindered. Here, cues from social coding sites can potentially help: Simple signs of a team's testing culture can facilitate more testing by contributors. We propose to make the team's testing culture visible by strategically employing traits of social transparency. We introduce six dashboard-like testing signals into the novice's IDE and prominently display how senior developers are testing. A preliminary evaluation with 24 soon-to-be Bachelor graduates showed encouraging results: Being reminded of their lagging test progress induced a need to test more. Visual comparison to colleagues' testing performance woke competitive feelings in students and made them want to write more test.
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7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015 - Proceedings. 2015. S. 1-8 (7th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, SSE 2015 - Proceedings).
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T1 - Communicating software testing culture through visualizing testing activity
AU - Pham, Raphael
AU - Mörschbach, Jonas
AU - Schneider, Kurt
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N2 - Inexperienced developers, for example new graduates joining a software development company, have dificulties applying their software testing knowledge. They lack handson experience and often have a dismissive attitude towards systematic testing, which hinders their adoption of testing activities. If the novice cannot quickly adopt a healthy testing culture during the onboarding phase, her progress as a high-quality engineer may be hindered. Here, cues from social coding sites can potentially help: Simple signs of a team's testing culture can facilitate more testing by contributors. We propose to make the team's testing culture visible by strategically employing traits of social transparency. We introduce six dashboard-like testing signals into the novice's IDE and prominently display how senior developers are testing. A preliminary evaluation with 24 soon-to-be Bachelor graduates showed encouraging results: Being reminded of their lagging test progress induced a need to test more. Visual comparison to colleagues' testing performance woke competitive feelings in students and made them want to write more test.
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KW - Newcomers
KW - Social Transparency
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