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The Perception of Test Driven Development in Computer Science – Outline for a Structured Literature Review

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Test driven development (TDD) is a practice that aims to improve product quality and maintainability by interweaving the design and implementation with its testing. It is most prominent in the software development domain. However, its usefulness is not undisputed, making it a somewhat controversial topic. Besides giving a short introduction regarding the principles of TDD, the publication at hand motivates and outlines a structured literature review to obtain new insights regarding the perception of TDD in computer science, hopefully contributing to the corresponding discourse. Furthermore, by already conducting the first steps of the review, it provides a first impression regarding the vastness of the potentially relevant literature base and gives a rough indication regarding the extend that is to be expected for the completed work.

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Lautenschläger, E. (2022). The Perception of Test Driven Development in Computer Science – Outline for a Structured Literature Review. In: Abramowicz, W., Auer, S., Stróżyna, M. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04216-4_13

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