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Identifying Guidelines for Test-Driven Development in Software Engineering—A Literature Review

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Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

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With the significance, ubiquity, and complexity of information technology continuously rising, the corresponding quality assurance becomes increasingly important and challenging. Consequently, numerous tools, techniques, paradigms, and strategies that facilitate the quality assurance of the developed applications have emerged. Test-driven development (TDD) is one of those strategies. In contrast to the traditional approach, it places testing ahead of the actual implementation, which, in turn, also heavily influences the system’s design. With the approach being rather complex, naturally, guidance on its correct application is one of the most relevant aspects for many practitioners. To provide assistance to them, but also to researchers concerned with the domain, the publication at hand identifies twenty guidelines for the practical application of TDD in software engineering, by conducting a structured literature review. In doing so, it provides a solid foundation for the implementation of corresponding endeavors as well as a starting point for further discussion.

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Staegemann, D., Volk, M., Pohl, M., Haertel, C., Hintsch, J., Turowski, K. (2023). Identifying Guidelines for Test-Driven Development in Software Engineering—A Literature Review. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 465. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2397-5_30

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