Dependable Systems
Test driven development: the state of the practice
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
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The author is a software engineer. He describes his own personal strategy for achieving quality software, using the “Quality First” method. The steps involved are: the syntax should always be correct; recompilation is done at least every 15 minutes; analysis, design, implementation and maintenance are all intertwined; execution is done straight after compilation; assertions are included everywhere; execution is done with assertion checking on; abnormal cases are tackled immediately; internationalization is catered for; at every stage, there is always a working system; and other people are used when testing