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Fast Feedback from Automated Tests Executed with the Product Build

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Software Quality. The Future of Systems- and Software Development (SWQD 2016)

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Abstract

Nowadays Continuous Integration (CI) is a very common practice with many advantages and it is used in many software projects. For large software projects checking out the source code, building the product and testing the product build via automated tests during CI can take a long time (e.g. many hours). So the software developers do not get fast feedback about their changes. Often the test report contains the results of many changes from several software developers or the feedback is not accurate enough according to the developer’s source code changes. This paper describes a novel approach to reduce the feedback time and to provide test results for only these changes the developer has committed.

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    When the option “Build Automatically” is activated in the Eclipse IDE.

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    Depending on the hardware of the developer’s computer.

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    For example the test plugin could be named as the product plugin plus the postfix “.test”.

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  1. Vector Informatik GmbH, Ingersheimer Straße 24, 70499, Stuttgart, Germany

    Martin Eyl & Clements Reichmann

  2. Institute for Information Processing Technology, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Müller-Glaser

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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

  2. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology Inst. of S/W Tech. and Interactive Sys., Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Biffl

  3. Software Quality Lab GmbH, Linz, Austria

    Johannes Bergsmann

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Eyl, M., Reichmann, C., Müller-Glaser, K. (2016). Fast Feedback from Automated Tests Executed with the Product Build. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. The Future of Systems- and Software Development. SWQD 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_14

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