Nachiappan Nagappan, E. Michael Maximilien, Thirumalesh Bhat, and Laurie Williams. “Realizing quality improvement through test driven development: results and experiences of four industrial teams“. ESE 2008. Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, a software engineer cycles minute-by-minute between writing failing unit tests and [...]
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Jerod W. Wilkerson, Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., and Rick Mercer: “Comparing the Defect Reduction Benefits of Code Inspection and Test-Driven Development.” Pre-print, IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, April 2011. This study is a quasi-experiment comparing the software defect rates and implementation costs of two methods of software defect reduction: code inspection and test-driven development. We divided [...]
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