Test-driven development (TDD) is a popular design approach used by the developers with
testing being the important software development driving factor. On the other hand, mutation …

Spikes can be an essential component in the agile development cycle since they assist
teams in both technical and functional issues in order to obtain the information required to …

Background: Test driven development, as a side-effect of develo** software, will produce
a set of accompanied test cases which can protect implemented features during code …

Test-driven development is an essential part of Extreme Programming approach with the
preference of being followed in other Agile methods as well. For several years, researchers …

Context: One limitation of the empirical studies about test-driven development (TDD) is
knowing whether the developers followed the advocated test-code-refactor cycle. Research …

Test driven development (TDD) appears not to be immune to positive test bias effects, as we
observed in several empirical studies. In these studies, developers created a significantly …

Students usually have difficulties assimilating basic contents of introductory programming
disciplines. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an interesting approach to address this issue …

Conducting empirical studies in industry always presents a major challenge for many
researchers. Being a graduate student does not make things any easier. Often due to the …

Test driven development (TDD) is one of the Agile techniques adopted in education. TDD is
an ideal approach to be taught in university due to its capability in producing quality software …

In this paper we present a control theory approach to stabilize the throughput of threads for
real-time applications on a multithreaded processor. We use a statistical model of a super …