Difference between revisions of "CddMeeting01082008"

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===Use of CDD increases development productivity===
 
===Use of CDD increases development productivity===
Did the use of testing decrease development time? In order to compare apples to apples we must be careful to compare  
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* Did the use of testing decrease development time?  
projects with a similar correcntess and completeness.
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*In order to compare apples to apples we must be careful to compare projects with a similar correcntess and completeness.
  
  
 
===Use of CDD increases code correctness===
 
===Use of CDD increases code correctness===
Is there a relation between code correctness of project (vs. some system level test suite) and test activity?
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*Is there a relation between code correctness of project (vs. some system level test suite) and test activity?
Test activity could composed of number of tests in system, number of times it ran, Number of pass/fail, fail/pass transitions, ...
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*Test activity could composed of number of tests in system, number of times it ran, Number of pass/fail, fail/pass transitions, ...
  
  
 
===Developer Profile===
 
===Developer Profile===
How did students use the testing tools. Are ther clusters of similar use? What is charactersitic for these clusters?
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*How did students use the testing tools. Are ther clusters of similar use? What is charactersitic for these clusters?
  
 
===How do extracted, synthesized and manually written test cases compare?===
 
===How do extracted, synthesized and manually written test cases compare?===
How many tests are there in each category?
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*How many tests are there in each category?
Were some excluded from testing more often than others?
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*Were some excluded from testing more often than others?
How many red/green and green/red transitions are there in each category?
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*How many red/green and green/red transitions are there in each category?
Which had compile-time errors most often that did not get fixed?
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*Which had compile-time errors most often that did not get fixed?
Which did students find the most useful (questionnair)?
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*Which did students find the most useful (questionnair)?

Revision as of 07:59, 8 January 2008

CDD Meeting, Tuesday, 8.1.2008, 10:00

Next Meeting

  • Friday, 11.1.2008, 10:00

Tasks

  • Add filters and tags for extracted, manual tests and automated tests
  • Fix extraction for tuples -> DONE, but needs testing, there are probably still problems with agents, but it's not certain if related to tuples or extraction (Stefan)
  • Look at/fix test case execution for agents (Stefan)
  • Add non-commited test cases (Stefan)
  • CDD log window in IDE (Arno)
  • "New manual test case" Button (Arno)
  • Better Icons for GUI (Arno)
  • Status / Progress bar (Arno)
  • Port to 6.1 (?, probably only after Beta 1)
  • Manual re-run to find true prestate (Jocelyn, Stefan)
  • Logging (Stefan)
    • What data to log?
    • Implement storing
    • Define how students should submit logs
  • Data Gathering (Stefan)
    • Define what data to gather
    • Define how to process gather data
  • Forumulate Experiment Hypothesis (Andreas)
  • Define Project for SoftEng (Manu)
    • Find System level test suite for us to test students code
    • Find project with pure functional part
  • "Execute visible test cases only" Button (?)
  • Restore open nodes and selection after grid update (Arno)
    • Maybe better/easier solved via incremental updates from tree
  • Automate CDD System level tests (Stefan)
  • Install CDD in student labs (Manu)
  • Pause test execution and compilation during regular compilation and execution (Arno)
  • Add most important convenience routine to CDD_TEST_CASE (Stefan)
  • Add failure context window (Arno)
    • Maybe also additional information such as previous outcomes?
  • Check why Gobo slows down compilation of project not using gobo when melting (performance issue for compiling interpreter)
  • Fix AutoTest for courses
    • Integrate AUT_TEST_CASE into CDD_TEST_CASE hierarchy
    • Variable declaration for failing test cases
    • New release
  • Move logs below cdd_tests
  • Environment variable (or better user preference) for qualifying class names (to avoid svn conflicts)
  • Uniqe id to tag test cases with. To be used in logs. So test logs are resiliant to test class renamings


Software Engineering Project

  • One large project, but divided into testable subcomponents
  • Students required to write test cases
  • Fixed API to make things uniformly testable
  • Public/Secret test cases (similar to Zeller course)
  • Competitions:
    • Group A test cases applied to Group A project
    • Group A test cases applied to Groupt B project

Data to harvest

  • Test Case Source (just final version, or all versions?)
    • Use Profiler to get coverage approximation
  • TC Meta Data (with timestamps)
    • TC Added/Removed
    • TC Outcome
    • TC execution time
  • Development Session Data
    • IDE Startup
    • File save
  • Questionnairs
    • Initial
    • Final

Experiment Hypotheses

Use of CDD increases development productivity

  • Did the use of testing decrease development time?
  • In order to compare apples to apples we must be careful to compare projects with a similar correcntess and completeness.


Use of CDD increases code correctness

  • Is there a relation between code correctness of project (vs. some system level test suite) and test activity?
  • Test activity could composed of number of tests in system, number of times it ran, Number of pass/fail, fail/pass transitions, ...


Developer Profile

  • How did students use the testing tools. Are ther clusters of similar use? What is charactersitic for these clusters?

How do extracted, synthesized and manually written test cases compare?

  • How many tests are there in each category?
  • Were some excluded from testing more often than others?
  • How many red/green and green/red transitions are there in each category?
  • Which had compile-time errors most often that did not get fixed?
  • Which did students find the most useful (questionnair)?