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Unit Testing in Global Software Development Environment

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Data Science and Analytics (REDSET 2017)

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Global software development has many challenges. Amongst them maintaining quality in the code developed in distributed sites is also a challenge. One of effective way to control the quality of the code is the unit testing. It removes defects at the early stage of development and further reduces the testing and maintenance efforts at the later phase of the development lifecycle. In this paper, a class complexity metric for testing the class, which is normally treated as a unit in object-oriented programming is proposed. The applicability of class complexity metrics for unit testing is demonstrated through a project in JAVA.

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We acknowledge the support and sponsorship provided by Covenant University through the Centre for Research, Innovation and Discovery (CUCRID).

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  1. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra & Adewole Adewumi

  2. Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Rytis Maskeliūnas & Robertas Damaševičius

  3. Turkcell, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ferid Cafer

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Misra, S., Adewumi, A., Maskeliūnas, R., Damaševičius, R., Cafer, F. (2018). Unit Testing in Global Software Development Environment. In: Panda, B., Sharma, S., Roy, N. (eds) Data Science and Analytics. REDSET 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 799. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8527-7_25

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