Automated recognition of low-level process: a pilot validation study of zorro for test-driven development

Authors:
Hongbing Kou;Philip M. Johnson
Affiliations:
Collaborative Software Development Laboratory, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI;Collaborative Software Development Laboratory, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Venue:
SPW/ProSim'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Software Process Simulation and Modeling
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is complying with the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process. Automated recognition of TDD could benefit the software engineering community in a variety of ways, from pedagogical aids to support the learning of test-driven design, to support for more rigorous empirical studies on the effectiveness of TDD in practice. This paper presents the Zorro system and the results of a pilot validation study, which shows that Zorro was able to recognize test-driven design episodes correctly 89% of the time. The results also indicate ways to improve Zorro's classification accuracy further, and provide evidence for the effectiveness of this approach to low-level software process recognition.