Unit testing in global software development environment

Abstract

Global software development has many challenges. Amongst them maintaining quality in the code developed in distributed sites is also a challenge. One of effective way to control the quality of the code is the unit testing. It removes defects at the early stage of development and further reduces the testing and maintenance efforts at the later phase of the development lifecycle. In this paper, a class complexity metric for testing the class, which is normally treated as a unit in object-oriented programming is proposed. The applicability of class complexity metrics for unit testing is demonstrated through a project in JAVA.