Critical issues on test-driven development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6759 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 322-336

  Kollanus, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE RESEARCH; CRITICAL ISSUES; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79960283900     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21843-9_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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