On the effects of continuous delivery on code quality: A case study in industry

Rubert, Maluane; Farias, Kleinner

doi:10.1016/j.csi.2021.103588

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“…Especially shorter delivery cycles undermine the quality and security, and accumulate the 'technical debt', which needs to be addressed eventually, and sometimes never done. The adoption of continuous delivery has been found in industrial case studies to negatively affect the quality of the source code, increase the number of security vulnerabilities, introduce code smells and duplicated codes, to be able to improve customer satisfaction-focused metrics, such as delivery rates [31]. The challenges exemplified here make software quality improvement a good candidate for gamification interventions, since gamification can contribute positively by creating a motivational dimension for higher quality software.…”

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Evaluation of an industrial case of gamification in software quality improvement

Say,

Altunel,

Kosa

et al. 2023

IJSG

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The value of industrial-scale gamification interventions for improving software quality is a topic of interest for software engineering research; but it has not frequently been analysed from the perspective of the developer’s experiences. The objective of this study is to qualitatively evaluate developers’ experiences in a team-based, leaderboard-style gamification intervention in a large software house. To understand the dynamics of positive outcomes in improving code security and quality, semi-structured interviews were conducted regarding both technical and psychosocial aspects. Eight members of three different leaderboard teams with different standings in the final leaderboard were interviewed, and the transcripts were examined using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. The results showed that the gamification intervention did result in positive individual and team-based awareness and behaviour change in a range of technical practices such as unit testing, code reviewing, and design. Post intervention, the participants discussed how their motivation, sense of belonging, and communication improved, also expressing concerns over attainability and fairness of gamification goals and relevance to existing workload. The experiential perspective emerging from analysed themes gives broader insights in technical and socio-psychological dimensions than available in the current literature.

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Evaluation of an industrial case of gamification in software quality improvement

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Altunel,

Kosa

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IJSG

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“…White box testers have access to the system's source code and are therefore familiar with its architecture. The tester begins by analyzing the source code, then uses the knowledge from the source code to generate a variety of test cases, and finally, particular code routes are utilized in order to achieve a desired amount of code coverage [29]. It is guaranteed by the test cases that each of the program's independent pathways has been followed at least once.…”

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Enhanced Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) and Applying it in Test Data Generation for Path Testing

Ryalat¹,

Fakhouri²,

Zraqou³

et al. 2023

IJACSA

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Data testing is a vital part of the software development process, and there are various approaches available to improve the exploration of all possible software code paths. This study introduces two contributions. Firstly, an improved version of the Multi-verse Optimizer called Testing Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) is proposed, which takes into account the movement of the swarm and the mean of the two best solutions in the universe. The particles move towards the optimal solution by using a mean-based algorithm model, which guarantees efficient exploration and exploitation. Secondly, TMVO is applied to automatically develop test cases for structural data testing, particularly path testing. Instead of automating the entire testing process, the focus is on centralizing automated procedures for collecting testing data. Automation for generating testing data is becoming increasingly popular due to the high cost of manual data generation. To evaluate the effectiveness of TMVO, it was tested on various well-known functions as well as five programs that presented unique challenges in testing. The test results indicated that TMVO performed better than the original MVO algorithm on the majority of the tested functions.

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Towards Serverless & Microservices Architecture: Strategies, Challenges, and Insights into Technology

Aljawawdeh,

Aljaidi,

Maghrabi

2024

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

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On the effects of continuous delivery on code quality: A case study in industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Evaluation of an industrial case of gamification in software quality improvement

Evaluation of an industrial case of gamification in software quality improvement

Enhanced Multi-Verse Optimizer (TMVO) and Applying it in Test Data Generation for Path Testing

Towards Serverless & Microservices Architecture: Strategies, Challenges, and Insights into Technology

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