Test first, code later: Educating for test driven development: Teaching case

Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel; Irit Hadar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_16

Test first, code later: Educating for test driven development: Teaching case

Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Irit Hadar

Department of Information Systems

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Abstract

As software engineering (SE) and information systems (IS) projects become more and more of collaborative nature in practice, project-based courses become an integral part of IS and SE curricula. One major challenge in this type of courses is students’ tendency to write test cases for their projects at a very late stage, often neglecting code coverage. This paper presents a teaching case of a Test-Driven Development (TDD) workshop that was conducted during a SE course intended for senior undergraduate IS students. The students were asked to write test cases according to TDD principles, and then develop code meeting test cases received from their peers. Students’ perceptions towards TDD were found to be quite positive. This experience indicates that instructing SE courses according to TDD principles, where test cases are written at the beginning of the project, may have positive effect on students’ code development skills and performance in general, and on their understanding of TDD in particular. These findings are informative for both education researchers and instructors who are interested in embedding TDD in IS or SE education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2018 International Workshops, Proceedings
Editors	Remco Dijkman, Raimundas Matulevicius
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	186-192
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783319928975
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_16
State	Published - 2018
Event	International workshops: ASDENCA, BDA, BIOC, COGNISE, Enterprise Modeling, and FAiSE wokshops are held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018 - Tallinn, Estonia Duration: 11 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	316
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348

Conference

Conference	International workshops: ASDENCA, BDA, BIOC, COGNISE, Enterprise Modeling, and FAiSE wokshops are held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018
Country/Territory	Estonia
City	Tallinn
Period	11/06/18 → 15/06/18

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© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

Education
Requirements engineering
Software engineering
Test Driven Development

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering
Business and International Management
Information Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Information Systems and Management

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Unkelos-Shpigel, N., & Hadar, I. (2018). Test first, code later: Educating for test driven development: Teaching case. In R. Dijkman, & R. Matulevicius (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2018 International Workshops, Proceedings (pp. 186-192). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 316). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_16

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Unkelos-Shpigel, N & Hadar, I 2018, Test first, code later: Educating for test driven development: Teaching case. in R Dijkman & R Matulevicius (eds), Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2018 International Workshops, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 316, Springer Verlag, pp. 186-192, International workshops: ASDENCA, BDA, BIOC, COGNISE, Enterprise Modeling, and FAiSE wokshops are held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, 11/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92898-2_16

Test first, code later: Educating for test driven development: Teaching case. / Unkelos-Shpigel, Naomi; Hadar, Irit.
Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2018 International Workshops, Proceedings. ed. / Remco Dijkman; Raimundas Matulevicius. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 186-192 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 316).

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