The effect of experience on the test-driven development process Export

@article{citeulike:2891534, abstract = {Abstract\ \ We conducted a quasi-experiment to compare the characteristics of experts' and novices' test-driven development processes. Our novices were 11 computers science students who participated in an Extreme Programming lab course, the expert group consisted of seven professionals who had industrial experience in test-driven development. The novices as well as two of the experts worked in a laboratory environment whereas the remaining five experts worked in their office. The experts complied more to the rules of test-driven development and had shorter test-cycles than the novices. The tests written by the experts were of higher quality in terms of statement and block coverage as well. All reported results are statistically significant on the 5\% level. We conclude that the results of studies which evaluate performance of test-driven development using subjects inexperienced in TDD are not easily generalisable.}, author = {M\"{u}ller, Matthias and H\"{o}fer, Andreas}, citeulike-article-id = {2891534}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1315690.1315695}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-007-9048-2}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/e5468616u483m844}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s10664-007-9048-2}, journal = {Empirical Software Engineering}, keywords = {experiment, observatory, testing, tf}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {593--615}, posted-at = {2008-06-13 15:31:44}, priority = {2}, title = {The effect of experience on the test-driven development process}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-007-9048-2}, volume = {12}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2891534 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2891534 N2 - Abstract  We conducted a quasi-experiment to compare the characteristics of experts’ and novices’ test-driven development processes. Our novices were 11 computers science students who participated in an Extreme Programming lab course, the expert group consisted of seven professionals who had industrial experience in test-driven development. The novices as well as two of the experts worked in a laboratory environment whereas the remaining five experts worked in their office. The experts complied more to the rules of test-driven development and had shorter test-cycles than the novices. The tests written by the experts were of higher quality in terms of statement and block coverage as well. All reported results are statistically significant on the 5% level. We conclude that the results of studies which evaluate performance of test-driven development using subjects inexperienced in TDD are not easily generalisable. IS - 6 JF - Empirical Software Engineering EP - 615 TI - The effect of experience on the test-driven development process VL - 12 SP - 593 KW - experiment KW - observatory KW - testing KW - tf AU - Müller, Matthias AU - Höfer, Andreas PY - 2007/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-007-9048-2 ER -