@inproceedings{b8624566c74c43e5ac284aa257efe781,
title = "Unit tests of scientific software: A study on swmm",
abstract = "Testing helps assure software quality by executing program and uncovering bugs. Scientific software developers often find it challenging to carry out systematic and automated testing due to reasons like inherent model uncertainties and complex floating point computations. We report in this paper a manual analysis of the unit tests written by the developers of the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). The results show that the 1,458 SWMM tests have a 54.0\% code coverage and a 82.4\% user manual coverage. We also observe a “getter-setter-getter” testing pattern from the SWMM unit tests. Based on these results, we offer insights to improve test development and coverage.",
keywords = "Scientific software, Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), Test coverage, Test oracle, Unit testing, User manual",
author = "Zedong Peng and Xuanyi Lin and Nan Niu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.; 20th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2020 ; Conference date: 03-06-2020 Through 05-06-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-50436-6\_30",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030504359",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "413--427",
editor = "Krzhizhanovskaya, \{Valeria V.\} and G{\'a}bor Z{\'a}vodszky and Lees, \{Michael H.\} and Sloot, \{Peter M.A.\} and Sloot, \{Peter M.A.\} and Sloot, \{Peter M.A.\} and Dongarra, \{Jack J.\} and S{\'e}rgio Brissos and Jo{\~a}o Teixeira",
booktitle = "Computational Science – ICCS 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings",
}
