Evaluating test-driven development in an industry-sponsored capstone project

ITNG 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 229-234

  Vu, John Huan ^a   Frojd, Niklas ^a   Shenkel Therolf, Clay ^a   Janzen, David S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capstone project; Software engineering; Test driven development (TDD); Test first methodology; Test last methodology

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; AUTOMATED TEST; CAPSTONE COURSE; CAPSTONE PROJECT; CAPSTONE PROJECTS; CONTROL GROUPS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; INCREMENTAL PROCESS; INDUSTRY SPONSORS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TESTING;

EID: 74049163955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2009.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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