A Survey on How Test Flakiness Affects Developers and What Support They Need To Address It

Replication dataset for the research paper "<i>A Survey on How Test Flakiness Affects Developers and What Support They Need To Address It</i>", which was presented at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2022Pre-printPlotting scripts<br>This package contains the following files:survey.mdthe questionnaire, that we presented to our participants.dataset.csvthe responses that we received. Let's look at the columns:ㅤㅤIdentifier columnsㅤㅤㅤㅤorigin: automotive (BMW) or global participantㅤㅤㅤㅤparticipant_id: unique participant id, which is referred to in the paperㅤGeneral demographic informationㅤㅤㅤㅤ(provided by Prolific -&gt; only available for global participants)ㅤㅤㅤㅤAgeㅤㅤㅤㅤCountry of BirthㅤㅤㅤㅤCurrent Country of ResidenceㅤㅤㅤㅤEmployment StatusㅤㅤㅤㅤFirst LanguageㅤㅤㅤㅤNationalityㅤㅤㅤㅤSexㅤㅤㅤㅤStudent StatusㅤㅤㅤㅤKnowledge of software develpment techniquesDemographic questionsㅤㅤplatformㅤㅤㅤㅤsoftwareTypeㅤㅤㅤㅤcodeSizeㅤㅤㅤㅤteamSizeㅤㅤㅤㅤtestLevelㅤㅤㅤㅤtestingPracticesExperience with Flakinessㅤㅤㅤㅤfrequency (=prevalence)ㅤㅤㅤㅤseverityㅤㅤㅤㅤconsequencesㅤㅤㅤㅤotherConsequencesㅤㅤㅤㅤrootCauseㅤㅤㅤㅤotherRootCausesㅤㅤㅤㅤmitigationStrategiesㅤㅤㅤㅤotherMitigationStrategiesㅤㅤㅤㅤwishescoded_free_text_answers.csvㅤㅤOur quantitative content analysis on all free text answers ㅤㅤㅤㅤ(otherConsequences, otherRootCauses, otherMitigations, wishes).Identifier columnsㅤㅤㅤㅤoriginㅤㅤㅤㅤparticipant_idㅤㅤㅤㅤquestion: which question was this answer given to?Code columnsㅤㅤhierarchical structure of codes: ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤCode \ ADDRESSED_ISSUE \ PARENT_CODE \ CHILD_CODEㅤㅤㅤㅤparent-codes are independent and not super-sets of child codes!for this purpose, we have \* codes -&gt; these are super-sets of all child-codes<br>ㅤㅤㅤㅤexample: Code\A\* unifies Code\A, Code\A\X, and Code\A\Y