A comparative case study on the impact of test-driven development on program design and test coverage

Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 275-284

  Siniaalto, Maria ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CASE STUDIES; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; OBJECT-ORIENTED METRICS; PROGRAM DESIGN; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOURCE CODING; TEST-COVERAGE; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 47949108130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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