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Bauer coined the term “software engineering” (SE) 1 forty years ago at a NATO Software Conference, expressing a need: “What we need is software engineering”. In the last decade, an incredible impact on research and practice in SE has been made by the agile movement. Under this broad umbrella of the agile methodologies sit specific approaches such as eXtreme Programming (XP) 1[23,25,129,247], Scrum [220,221], Lean Software Development [206], etc. They share similar values and beliefs, which have been documented in the “agile manifesto” [24]. Among the agile methodologies, XP is probably the most prominent one and an empirical evaluation of one of its key practices, called Test-First Programming (TF), is a general aim of this book.
When defects in an existing paradigm accumulate to the extent that the paradigm is no longer tenable, the paradigm is challenged and replaced by a new way of looking at the world.
Dawn Freshwater and Gary Rolfe
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According to Koskela [144], TDD and TF are just different names for the same practice and both may be used interchangeably.
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Code coverage analysis is sometimes called test coverage analysis but both terms are synonymous [53] and will be used interchangeably.
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Madeyski, L. (2010). Introduction. In: Test-Driven Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04288-1_1
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