Uma infraestrutura para apoiar o processo de teste de software através de proveniência e previsão dos resultados de testes de unidade

Abstract

Software is increasingly present in people's daily lives. Various sectors and the environment are influenced by them. In this way, the development of software becomes a critical activity. Thus, the testing process becomes crucially important because any negligence can affect the quality of the product and the insecurity related to the use of the software. However, the software development scenario has undergone changes from the need to meet demands with greater agility and the demands of the market. It is fundamental to have a holistic view of the software development processes in order to generate a cycle of continuous improvement. Such a view is referred to as Continuous Software Engineering. Continuous Software Engineering is characterized by the use of feedback from executions to achieve continuous improvement and by performing activities on an ongoing basis. Feedback this can be provided through the provenance of data: description of the origins of a given and the processes by which it passed. This work presents an infrastructure that focuses on the capture and storage of the project execution data history, the prediction of the results of the unit tests through prediction algorithms: Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes and C4.5 Algorithm, and the provision of data for external applications. It also provides preview elements which help in understanding the data. An experiment with data from a real project was carried out in order to identify the accuracy of the prediction.