On the effectiveness of the test-first approach to programming

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 226-237

  Erdogmus, Hakan ^a   Morisio, Maurizio ^b   Torchiano, Marco ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coding tools and techniques; General programming techniques; Productivity; Programming paradigms; Software engineering process; Software Quality SQA; Testing and debugging; Testing strategies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TESTING; DATA REDUCTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GENERAL PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS; TESTING STRATEGIES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 21244432456     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.37     Document Type: Article

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