Test driven development and the scientific method

Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, ADC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 47-52

  Mugridge, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Automatic testing; Computer science; Costs; Documentation; Manufacturing; Programming profession; Reproducibility of results; Software engineering; System testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TESTING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER TESTING; CONTROL; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; MANUFACTURE; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EXTREME PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; SYSTEM TESTING; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84944314853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADC.2003.1231452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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