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Programming languages popularity and implications to testing programmable logic controllers

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Authors:

Eduard Paul Enoiu

Note:

Eduard P Enoiu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analysed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.This research was supported by The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) through the ITS-EASY industrial research school. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Research group:

Software Testing Laboratory

Publication Type:

Report

Publisher:

PeerJ PrePrints

DOI:

10.7287/peerj.preprints.879v1

Abstract

The popularity of domain-specific programming languages has implications on how we test software in these domain industries. For example for programmable logic controllers five standard languages were defined and used in practice. Detailed data on popularity of these languages should show some implications on what languages to target when testing. We suggest that massive new data sources resulting from programmers may offer a new perspective on how we test domain-specific languages. By analysing Google query volumes for search terms related to programmable logic controllers languages, we find patterns that may be interpreted as signs of actual usage in practice. Comparing with the current test generation approaches proposed by researchers our results illustrate both potentials and threats on what is needed in reality when testing programmable logic controllers.

Bibtex

@techreport{Enoiu3937,
author = {Eduard Paul Enoiu},
title = {Programming languages popularity and implications to testing programmable logic controllers},
note = {Eduard P Enoiu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analysed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.This research was supported by The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) through the ITS-EASY industrial research school. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.},
month = {March},
year = {2015},
publisher = {PeerJ PrePrints },
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/3937-}
}