The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and
adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that …

Context Test driven development (TDD) has been extensively researched and compared to
traditional approaches (test last development, TLD). Existing literature reviews show varying …

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Background: Most of the experiments in software engineering (SE) employ students as
subjects. This raises concerns about the realism of the results acquired through students …

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 …

Context is a central concept in empirical software engineering. It is one of the distinctive
features of the discipline and it is an in-dispensable part of software practice. It is likely …

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 …

(TDD) is one of the most controversial agile practices in terms of its impact on software
quality and programmer productivity. After more than a decade's research, the jury is still out …

TDD proponents assert that frequent, incremental testing not only improves the delivered
code's quality but also generates a cleaner design. The authors present results from a …

Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile practice claimed to improve the quality
of a software product, as well as the productivity of its developers. A previous study (ie …