Impacts of adaptive feedback on teaching test-driven development

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 293-298

  Buffardi, Kevin ^a   Edwards, Stephen H ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Automated Testing; Instructional Technology; Test Driven Development (TDD); Test first; Unit testing; Web CAT

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; STUDENTS;

ADHERENCE; AUTOMATED TESTING; INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; UNIT TESTING; WEB-CAT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84876208550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2445196.2445287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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