A survey of evidence for test-driven development in academia

C Desai, D Janzen, K Savage - ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2008 - dl.acm.org
C Desai, D Janzen, K Savage
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2008dl.acm.org
University professors traditionally struggle to incorporate software testing into their course
curriculum. Worries include double-grading for correctness of both source and test code and
finding time to teach testing as a topic. Test-driven development (TDD) has been suggested
as a possible solution to improve student software testing skills and to realize the benefits of
testing. According to most existing studies, TDD improves software quality and student
productivity. This paper surveys the current state of TDD experiments conducted exclusively …
University professors traditionally struggle to incorporate software testing into their course curriculum. Worries include double-grading for correctness of both source and test code and finding time to teach testing as a topic. Test-driven development (TDD) has been suggested as a possible solution to improve student software testing skills and to realize the benefits of testing. According to most existing studies, TDD improves software quality and student productivity. This paper surveys the current state of TDD experiments conducted exclusively at universities. Similar surveys compare experiments in both the classroom and industry, but none have focused strictly on academia.
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