Overview of the Test Driven Development Research Projects and Experiments

Abstract

Benefits offered by Test Driven Development are still not fully exploited in industrial practice, and a number of projects and experiments have been conducted at universities and at large IT companies, such as IBM and Microsoft, in order to evaluate usefulness of this approach. The aim of this paper is to summarize results (often contradictory) from these experiments, taking into account the reliability of the results and reliability of the project design and participants. Projects and experiments selected in this paper vary from projects that are accomplished at universities by using undergraduate students to project accomplished by professionals and industrial teams with many years of experience.