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This paper investigates the effects of test driven development in the academic environment by conducting a case study with eight students who were assigned to implement a simple application either with test driven approach or with traditional approach. The results of the case study showed that the first group of students completed their tasks faster and with higher quality than the second group. The programs written by the first group pass relatively more test cases than those developed by the second group. The first group of programmers also wrote cleaner code with higher cohesion by creating more reasonable number of methods. Therefore, test-driven approach could be used in the academic environment such as assignments and projects.
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Xu, S., Li, T. (2009). Evaluation of Test-Driven Development: An Academic Case Study. In: Lee, R., Ishii, N. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications 2009. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05441-9_20
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