The agile paradigm for software projects has significantly impacted software development
worldwide. It is currently widely accepted as having advantages in accommodating changes …

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their systems lies in
engineering test cases that are good enough to reveal bugs. And while our body of …

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile software development approach. It promotes
short cycles, composed of three phases each, to incrementally implement software …

Context: Recent developments in natural language processing have facilitated the adoption
of chatbots in typically collaborative software engineering tasks (such as diagram …

Test-first development (TFD) is a software development approach involving automated tests
before writing the actual code. TFD offers many benefits, such as improving code quality …

Context: Empirical studies with human participants (eg, controlled experiments) are
established methods in Software Engineering (SE) research to understand developers' …

The challenge of effectively develo** and sustaining high-performance professional
development practices in software engineering education is one that must be addressed …

Unit tests are widely used to check source code quality, but they can be too coarse-grained
or ill-suited for testing individual program statements. We introduce inline tests to make it …

Context: The usability software quality characteristic aims to improve system user
performance. In a previous study, we found evidence of the impact of a set of usability …

The research on the claimed effects of Test-Driven Development (TDD) on software quality
and developers' productivity has shown inconclusive results. Some researchers have …