A survey of evidence for test-driven development in academia Export

@article{citeulike:3389920, abstract = {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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Desai, Chetan and Janzen, David and Savage, Kyle}, citeulike-article-id = {3389920}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1383602.1383644}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1383602.1383644}, doi = {10.1145/1383602.1383644}, issn = {0097-8418}, journal = {SIGCSE Bull.}, number = {2}, pages = {97--101}, posted-at = {2008-11-11 18:10:45}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A survey of evidence for test-driven development in academia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1383602.1383644}, volume = {40}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3389920 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3389920 N2 - 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. IS - 2 JF - SIGCSE Bull. SN - 0097-8418 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 101 TI - A survey of evidence for test-driven development in academia PB - ACM VL - 40 SP - 97 AU - Desai, Chetan AU - Janzen, David AU - Savage, Kyle PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1383602.1383644 ER -