Overcoming obstacles to test-driven learning on day one

ICSTW 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 448-453

  Clements, John ^a   Janzen, David ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEB-BASED TOOLS;

SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953755172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2010.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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