WatchDog For IntelliJ: An IDE Plugin To Analyze Software Testing Practices Master’s Thesis Igor Levaja WatchDog For IntelliJ: An IDE Plugin To Analyze Software Testing Practices THESIS submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in COMPUTER SCIENCE by Igor Levaja born in Pozarevac, Serbia Software Engineering Research Group Department of Software Technology Faculty EEMCS, Delft University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands www.ewi.tudelft.nl c 2016 Igor Levaja. All rights reserved. WatchDog For IntelliJ: An IDE Plugin To Analyze Software Testing Practices Author: Igor Levaja Student id: 4318110 Email:
[email protected] Abstract Software testing is as old as software development itself – they could not exist one without the other. However, are they equally important? Do software develop- ers devote an equivalent amount of time to both produce software and to test it? An ongoing study of the TestRoots project aims to examine and improve the state of the art of software testing and answer those questions, by observing developers’ everyday behavior. In order to support this effort, we evolved WatchDog, a single-platform software, to become the scalable, multi-platform and production-ready tool which assesses de- veloper testing activities in multiple integrated development environments (IDEs). We further used WatchDog platform to perform a small-scale study in which we examined testing habits of developers who use IntelliJ IDEA and compared them to those of the Eclipse IDE users. Finally, we were able to confirm that IntelliJ users, similarly to the Eclipse users, do not actively practice testing inside their IDEs.