google/googletest

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

7

Human commits, 90 days

80

Human commits, 365 days

156

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

11

Last release

Aug 10, 2026 (2 months ago)

Median PR merge time

4 days

Responsiveness: of 24 recent issues, 38% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

134 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

7

Contributors

389

Top committers

• Abseil Team: 63% of commits
• derekmauro: 6% of commits
• K-S-Manikandan: 4% of commits
• mkruskal-google: 2% of commits
• pkumar0508: 2% of commits

• Commits pushed by accounts that sync other people's work, such as translation platforms, are left out of the shares.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Sep 27, 2018 to Sep 28, 2018: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 8, 2019 to Oct 10, 2019: about 158 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 5, 2020 to May 7, 2020: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 19, 2020 to Aug 25, 2020: about 416 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 16, 2020 to Sep 28, 2020: about 650 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 20, 2020 to Nov 23, 2020: about 219 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 2, 2020 to Dec 5, 2020: about 298 more stars than usual, peak 112 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 1, 2021 to Jan 1, 2021: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 4, 2021 to Feb 7, 2021: about 299 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 27, 2021 to Mar 7, 2021: about 513 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 25, 2021: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 18, 2021 to May 23, 2021: about 345 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 11, 2021 to Jun 11, 2021: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 29, 2021 to Aug 1, 2021: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 22, 2021 to Dec 23, 2021: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 6, 2022 to Jan 7, 2022: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 18, 2022 to Feb 22, 2022: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 10, 2022 to May 18, 2022: about 470 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 13, 2022 to Jul 14, 2022: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 31, 2022 to Sep 2, 2022: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 28, 2022 to Oct 1, 2022: about 148 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 5, 2022 to Oct 7, 2022: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 22, 2023 to Jun 25, 2023: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 17, 2023 to Aug 20, 2023: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 24, 2023 to Oct 28, 2023: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 15, 2024 to Mar 17, 2024: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2024 to Apr 14, 2024: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 30, 2024 to May 31, 2024: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2024 to Aug 3, 2024: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 10, 2024 to Sep 14, 2024: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 9, 2025 to Jan 12, 2025: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 5, 2025 to Apr 6, 2025: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jul 11, 2025 to Jul 12, 2025: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 21, 2025 to Aug 25, 2025: about 246 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Jan 7, 2026 to Jan 11, 2026: about 325 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 27, 2026 to Sep 3, 2026: about 493 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

• 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

A year ago

BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: google/googletest