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@inproceedings{Orellana2017MSR,
author = {Gerardo Orellana and Gulsher Laghari and
Alessandro Murgia and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Proceedings {MSR2017} (2017 {IEEE/ACM} 14th
International Conference on Mining Software
Repositories)},
month = {May},
pages = {451---454},
title = {On the Differences between Unit and Integration
Testing in the TravisTorrent Dataset},
volume = {Data Challenge Track},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Already from the early days of testing, practitioners
distinguish between unit tests and integration tests
as a strategy to locate defects. Unfortunately, the
mining software engineering community rarely
distinguishes between these two strategies, mainly
because it is not straightforward to separate them in
the code repositories under study. In this paper we
exploited the TravisTorrent dataset provided for the
MSR 2017 mining challenge, separated unit tests from
integration tests, and correlated these against the
workflow as recorded in the corresponding issue
reports. Further analysis confirmed that it is
worthwhile to treat unit tests and integration tests
differently: we discovered that unit tests cause more
breaking builds, that fixing the defects exposed by
unit tests takes longer and implies more coordination
between team members.},
annote = {internationalconference},
doi = {10.1109/MSR.2017.25},
}