Test-Driven Development - Still a promising approach?

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 403-408

  Kollanus, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXTERNAL CODE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 78751547723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QUATIC.2010.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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