The effect of experience on the test-driven development process

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 593-615

  Müller, Matthias M ^a   Höfer, Andreas ^b  

^a EnBW Kraftwerke AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experts; Novices; Process; Quasi experiment; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; STUDENTS;

EXPERTS; NOVICES; QUASI-EXPERIMENT; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 35748937602     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-007-9048-2     Document Type: Article

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