Abstract Context: Test Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that has gained
popularity when it was defined as a fundamental part in eXtreme Programming (XP) …

Context Test driven development (TDD) has been extensively researched and compared to
traditional approaches (test last development, TLD). Existing literature reviews show varying …

This book has been a much longer process than I would have ever anticipated. The original
idea was to integrate and combine the research on software product quality control with my …

Software testing is one of the key activities to achieve software quality in practice. Despite its
importance, however, we have a remarkable lack of knowledge on how developers test in …

This paper provides a systematic meta-analysis of 27 studies that investigate the impact of
Test-Driven Development (TDD) on external code quality and productivity. The results …

Test driven development (TDD) is one of the basic practices of agile software development
and both academia and practitioners claim that TDD, to a certain extent, improves the quality …

Agile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many
industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long …

Test-driven development is a discipline of design and programming where every line of new
code is written in response to a test the programmer writes just before coding. This special …

Instituting an automated unit testing practice across a large software development team can
be technically challenging and time consuming. As a result, teams may question the …

BACKGROUND: Test-First programming is regarded as one of the software development
practices that can make unit tests to be more rigorous, thorough and effective in fault …