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Studying Test-Driven Development and its Retainment Over a Six-month Time Span
Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Davide Fucci +4
In this paper, we investigate the effect of TDD, as compared to a non-TDD approach, as well as its retainment (or retention) over a time span of (about) six months. To pursue these…
A Family of Experiments on Test-Driven Development
Adrian Santos, Sira Vegas, Oscar Dieste +18
Context: Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development approach that has been widely claimed to improve software quality. However, the extent to which TDD improves…
A Large Scale Empirical Study of the Impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob Anti-patterns on Program Comprehension
Cristiano Politowski, Foutse Khomh, Simone Romano +4
Context: Several studies investigated the impact of anti-patterns (i.e., "poor" solutions to recurring design problems) during maintenance activities and reported that anti-pattern…
Researcher Bias in Software Engineering Experiments: a Qualitative Investigation
Simone Romano, Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello +3
Researcher Bias (RB) occurs when researchers influence the results of an empirical study based on their expectations.RB might be due to the use of Questionable Research Practices(Q…
Results from a replicated experiment on the affective reactions of novice developers when applying test-driven development
Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +2
Test-driven Development (TDD) is an incremental approach to software development. Despite it is claimed to improve both quality of software and developers' productivity, the resear…
An Empirical Assessment on Affective Reactions of Novice Developers when Applying Test-Driven Development
Simone Romano, Davide Fucci, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +2
We study whether and in which phase Test-Driven Development (TDD) influences affective states of novice developers in terms of pleasure, arousal, dominance, and liking. We performe…