Does test-driven development improve the program code? Alarming results from a comparative case study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5082 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-156

  Siniaalto, Maria ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b  

^a F Secure Oyj   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Software quality; Test driven development; Test first development; Test first programming

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSIENTS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; TEST-FIRST DEVELOPMENT; TEST-FIRST PROGRAMMING;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; LOOSELY COUPLED; PROGRAM DESIGN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; TEST-FIRST DEVELOPMENT; UNIT LEVEL TESTING;

EID: 50949125152     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85279-7_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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