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 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 …

Support for test-driven development [TDD] is growing in many development contexts beyond
its common association with extreme programming. By focusing on how TDD influences …

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 …

Test driven development (TDD) is gaining interest among practitioners and researchers: it
promises to increase the quality of the code. Even if TDD is considered a development …

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 …

Existing empirical studies on test-driven development (TDD) report different conclusions
about its effects on quality and productivity. Very few of those studies are experiments …