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Test Driven Development and Software Process Improvement in China

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3092))

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Developing areas in China are attracting increasing investment in manufacturing. This has increased the local demand for software and, consequently, demands on local software teams. Such teams, typically small, inexperienced and suffer high personnel turnover, often produce defective products. As software process improvement models are unsuitable for such teams, research was conducted applying a test-driven development (TDD) approach. TDD quickly improved the overall team performance. Our findings are applicable in other Asian developing countries.

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  1. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong

    Kim Man Lui & Keith C. C. Chan

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    Jutta Eckstein

  2. Informatik og Matematisk Modellering, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Lyngby,  

    Hubert Baumeister

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Lui, K.M., Chan, K.C.C. (2004). Test Driven Development and Software Process Improvement in China. In: Eckstein, J., Baumeister, H. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_27

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