Do Open Source Software Projects Conduct Tests Enough?

PROFES 2014 : Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, December 10-12, 2014, Helsinki, FinlandDo open source software projects provide and maintain tests? What metrics are correlated with the test success? This paper answers these questions by executing tests of 452 open source software projects in GitHub and measuring 13 metrics from 77 projects. Only 117 projects passed all test cases. Additionally, the results are correlated with the comment density, public documented API density, and test coverage