What do we know about test-driven development?

Forrest Shull; Grigori Melnik; Burak Turhan; Lucas Layman; Madeline Diep; Hakan Erdogmus

doi:10.1109/MS.2010.152

What do we know about test-driven development?

Forrest Shull
, Grigori Melnik
, Burak Turhan
, Lucas Layman
, Madeline Diep
, Hakan Erdogmus

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Abstract

TDD proponents assert that frequent, incremental testing not only improves the delivered code's quality but also generates a cleaner design. The authors present results from a systematic literature review as well as commentary on the results from a TDD expert's experience on field projects.

Original language	English
Article number	5604358
Pages (from-to)	16-19
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	27
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2010.152
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

software engineering

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