Realizing quality improvement through test driven development: Results and experiences of four industrial teams

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 289-302

  Nagappan, Nachiappan ^a   Maximilien, E Michael ^b   Bhat, Thirumalesh ^a   Williams, Laurie ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects faults; Development time; Empirical study; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEFECTS/FAULTS; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EMPIRICAL STUDY; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 44649166368     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9062-z     Document Type: Article

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