"software quality"

TsDetect: An Open Source Test Smells Detection Tool

The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming practices, also known as smells. The presence of test smells in a software project may affect the quality, maintainability, and extendability of test suites …

On the Distribution of Test Smells in Open Source Android Applications: An Exploratory Study

The impact of bad programming practices, such as code smells, in production code has been the focus of numerous studies in software engineering. Like production code, unit tests are also affected by bad programming practices which can have a negative …