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Implications of test-driven development: a pilot study

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Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications archive
Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications table of contents

Anaheim, CA, USA

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Pages: 298 - 299

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-751-6

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Reid Kaufmann	Sun Microsystems, Inc., Wichita, KS
David Janzen	Bethel College, North Newton, KS

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 15, Downloads (12 Months): 109, Citation Count: 9

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ABSTRACT

A Spring 2003 experiment examines the claims that test-driven development or test-first programming improves software quality and programmer confidence. The results indicate support for these claims and inform larger future experiments.

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CITED BY 9

	Christopher G. Jones, Test-driven development goes to school, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, v.20 n.1, p.220-231, October 2004
	David S. Janzen, Software architecture improvement through test-driven development, Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 16-20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
	David S. Janzen, Software architecture improvement through test-driven development, Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 16-20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
	David Janzen , Hossein Saiedian, Test-Driven Development: Concepts, Taxonomy, and Future Direction, Computer, v.38 n.9, p.43-50, September 2005
	Jaime Spacco , William Pugh, Helping students appreciate test-driven development (TDD), Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, October 22-26, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA
	Chetan Desai , David Janzen , Kyle Savage, A survey of evidence for test-driven development in academia, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.40 n.2, June 2008
	Filippo Ricca , Marco Torchiano , Massimiliano Di Penta , Mariano Ceccato , Paolo Tonella, Using acceptance tests as a support for clarifying requirements: A series of experiments, Information and Software Technology, v.51 n.2, p.270-283, February, 2009
	Liang Huang , Mike Holcombe, Empirical investigation towards the effectiveness of Test First programming, Information and Software Technology, v.51 n.1, p.182-194, January, 2009
	Sami Kollanus , Ville Isomöttönen, Understanding TDD in academic environment: experiences from two experiments, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research, November 13-16, 2008, Koli, Finland