Title :
Test driven development and the scientific method
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ., New Zealand
Abstract :
The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in extreme programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method, by analogy, can be used to better understand test driven development (and vice versa).
Keywords :
object-oriented methods; program testing; reverse engineering; software development management; software engineering; extreme programming; scientific method; software development; test driven development; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Computer science; Costs; Documentation; Manufacturing; Programming profession; Reproducibility of results; Software engineering; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Agile Development Conference, 2003. ADC 2003. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2013-8
DOI :
10.1109/ADC.2003.1231452
