A formative study of influences on student testing behaviors

SIGCSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 597-602

  Buffardi, Kevin ^a   Edwards, Stephen H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Automated testing; Instructional technology; Software development process; Test Driven Development (TDD); Test first; Unit testing; Web CAT

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; REINFORCEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED TESTING; INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; TEST-FIRST; UNIT TESTING; WEB-CAT;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84899750517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2538862.2544317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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