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Does Test-Driven Development Improve the Program Code? Alarming Results from a Comparative Case Study
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2008
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
It is suggested that test-driven development (TDD) is one of the most fundamental practices in agile software development, which produces loosely coupled and highly cohesive code. However, how the TDD impacts on the structure of the program code have not been widely studied. This paper presents the results from a comparative case study of five small scale software development projects where the effect of TDD on program design was studied using both traditional and package level metrics. The
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85279-7_12
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