Development of auxiliary functions: Should you be agile? An empirical assessment of pair programming and test-first programming

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 529-539

  Lemos, Otávio Auguste Lazzarini ^a   Ferrari, Fabiano Cutigi ^b   Silveira, Fábio Fagundes ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

agile methods; experimental software engineering; pair programming; TDD; test first programming

Indexed keywords

AGILE APPROACHES; AGILE METHODS; AGILE PRACTICES; AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS; CRITICAL MODULES; DEVELOPMENT TIME; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MAIN MODULE; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TDD; TEST SETS; TIME-TO-MARKET;

FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84864250279     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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