ComTest: A tool to impart TDD and unit testing to introductory level programming

ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-67

  Lappalainen, Vesa ^a   Itkonen, Jonne ^a   Isomöttönen, Ville ^a   Kollanus, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Education; TDD; Tools; Unit testing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; COMPUTING CURRICULA; JAVADOC; LESSONS LEARNED; PROGRAMMING COURSE; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS; SOURCE CODES; TEST CODE; UNIT TESTING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; LOAD TESTING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77955132288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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