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 …

Background: Test-driven development (TDD) is a technique that repeats short coding cycles
interleaved with testing. The developer first writes a unit test for the desired functionality …

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 …

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 …

Test-driven development (TDD) is a style of development named for its most visible
characteristic: the design and implementation of test cases prior to the implementation of the …

Context: The majority of the empirical studies on Test-driven development (TDD) are
concerned with verifying or refuting the effectiveness of the technique over a traditional …

Context: In software engineering (SE) experiments, the way in which a treatment is applied
could affect results. Different interpretations of how to apply the treatment and decisions on …

Context: There is still little evidence on differences between Test-Driven Development and
Test-Last Development, especially for real-world projects, so their impact on code/test …

Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is complying
with an operational definition of test-driven development (TDD) practices. Automated …

Context The improvements promoted by Test-Driven Design (TDD) have not been confirmed
by quantitative assessment studies. To a great extent, the problem lies in the lack of a …