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Driving Software Quality: How Test-Driven Development Impacts Software Quality

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IEEE Software, Volume 23, Issue 6

Pages 70 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2006.157

Published: 01 November 2006 Publication History

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Recently, software development teams using agile processes have started widely adopting test-driven development. But does TDD really improve software quality?

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November 2006

107 pages

ISSN:0740-7459

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