Empirical studies on the impact of test-first programming
Lech Madeyski · 2009
This paper presents productivity and quality effects of test-first programming technique in a tabular form and, as a result, provides a summary of many empirical studies conducted so far. The table has been moved here from one of my research papers according to the anonymous reviewer’s suggestion. 1 Empirical studies on the impact of test-first (TF) programming Both productivity and quality effects of TF technique are presented in Table 1 which provides a summary of many empirical studies conducted so far. The table reports, from left to right, the references for each study, the environment (e.g. academic or industrial) in which an empirical study was conducted, the number of subjects involved in each empirical study, and statistical significance of the effects of TF practice (if available) along with textual descriptions of the findings.