The effectiveness of test-driven development: An industrial case study

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-661

  Dogša, Tomaž ^a   Batič, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Ultra Doo   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Maintainability; Productivity; Software engineering process; Software quality SQA; Test driven development; Testing and debugging; Testing strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052261593     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-011-9130-2     Document Type: Article

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