Guest editor's introduction: TDD - The art of fearless programming

IEEE Software

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 24-30

  Jeffries, Ron ^b   Melnik, Grigori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Program testing; Software engineering; TDD; Test driven Development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248356409     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2007.75     Document Type: Editorial

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