Evaluating the efficacy of test-driven development: Industrial case studies

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 356-363

  Bhat, Thirumalesh ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Software quality; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

MICROSOFT (CO); SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34247347410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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