What we know about spreadsheet errors
Journal of End User Computing - End User Development
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Test Driven Development: By Example
Test Driven Development: By Example
Quality Control in Spreadsheets: A Software Engineering-Based Approach to Spreadsheet Development
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 4 - Volume 4
An initial investigation of test driven development in industry
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Communications of the ACM - End-user development: tools that empower users to create their own software solutions
On the Effectiveness of the Test-First Approach to Programming
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Integrating automated test generation into the WYSIWYT spreadsheet testing methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
AutoTest: A Tool for Automatic Test Case Generation in Spreadsheets
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Intelligent Voice Navigation of Spreadsheets
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Considering rigor and relevance when evaluating test driven development: A systematic review
Information and Software Technology
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It is widely documented that the absence of a structured approach to spreadsheet engineering is a key factor in the high level of spreadsheet errors. In this paper we propose and investigate the application of Test-Driven Development to the creation of spreadsheets. Test-Driven Development is an emerging development technique in software engineering that has been shown to result in better quality software code. It has also been shown that this code requires less testing and is easier to maintain. Through a set of case studies we demonstrate that Test-Driven Development can be applied to the development of spreadsheets. We present the detail of these studies preceded by a clear explanation of the technique and its application to spreadsheet engineering. A supporting tool under development by the authors is also documented along with proposed research to determine the effectiveness of the methodology and the associated tool.