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Teaching software development with ATDD and easyaccept

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Jacques Philippe Sauvé,

Osório Lopes Abath NetoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 1

Pages 542 - 546

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352322.1352317

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we report our experience in teaching software development to Computer Science undergraduate students using acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) and the acceptance testing tool EasyAccept. A typical software design course in a Computer Science curriculum has been modified to include project assignments with executable analysis, which gives students more focus on meeting requirements, boosts confidence in the code being written and results in increased software correctness. We evaluate the benefits of the approach and give suggestions on how to cope with its limitations.

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Castellanos HRestrepo-Calle FGonzález FEcheverry J(2017)Understanding the relationships between self-regulated learning and students source code in a computer programming course2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE.2017.8190467(1-9)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
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Teaching software development with ATDD and easyaccept
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Specification languages

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 1

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March 2008

549 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1352322

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2008
606 pages
ISBN:9781595937995
DOI:10.1145/1352135
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Santos EVilain PLongo DChaudron MCrnkovic IChechik MHarman M(2018)A systematic literature review to support the selection of user acceptance testing techniquesProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings10.1145/3183440.3195036(418-419)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183440.3195036
Castellanos HRestrepo-Calle FGonzález FEcheverry J(2017)Understanding the relationships between self-regulated learning and students source code in a computer programming course2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE.2017.8190467(1-9)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
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Tort AOlivé ASancho M(2011)An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemasData & Knowledge Engineering10.1016/j.datak.2011.07.00670:12(1088-1111)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2011
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