• DocumentCode
    2079132
  • Title

    Reducing Test Cost and Improving Documentation In TDD (Test Driven Development)

  • Author

    Karamat, Taha ; Jamil, Atif Neuman

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., COMSATS Inst. of Inf. Technol., Abbottabad
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    19-20 June 2006
  • Firstpage
    73
  • Lastpage
    76
  • Abstract
    In the fast pace business world of today where competition and technology are at their zenith, software development companies need to improve their quality standards in addition to cost reduction in operations. To achieve these challenging objectives various developments are on the verge. In recent past agile methodologies have emerged as one of the most efficient implementations in the world of software development arena. Especially eXtreme programming (XP) which is integrated by test first approach recent research proves the emergence of test driven development (TDD) from this concept which is based on formalizing the requirement as a test and secondly to write such a code that can pass the test. This attempt of our research provides a mechanism to reduce the cost of testing, mainly due to troublesome test which fails again and again. We used TDD, analyzed the problem and proposed a workable solution. Test driven development is a technique which encourages less documentation resulting in a lot of difficulties for developers in contrast to traditional methods. In order to reduce the burden on developers we have proposed some steps in documentation
  • Keywords
    program testing; software cost estimation; software quality; software standards; eXtreme programming; software development; software quality standards; test cost reduction; test driven development; Companies; Computer science; Costs; Documentation; Information technology; Life testing; Programming; Software quality; Software standards; Software testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, 2006. SNPD 2006. Seventh ACIS International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2611-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SNPD-SAWN.2006.59
  • Filename
    1640669