Does test-driven development really improve software design quality?

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 77-84

  Janzen, David S ^a   Saiedian, Hossein ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality analysis; Quality metrics; Software architecture; Software design; TDD; Test design; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

QUALITY METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 40949159801     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.34     Document Type: Article

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