An empirical study on the TDD conformance of novice and expert pair programmers

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 31 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 33-42

  Höfer, Andreas ^a   Philipp, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Andrena Objects ag   (Germany)

Author keywords

experts and novices; pair programming; quasi experiment; Test driven development

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERTS AND NOVICES; INSTRUCTION COVERAGE; PAIR PROGRAMMING; QUASI-EXPERIMENT; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 66749177753     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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