Test Driven Development and the Scientific Method

  • Authors:
  • Rick Mugridge

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ADC '03 Proceedings of the Conference on Agile Development
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The scientific method serves as a good metaphor forseveral practices in Extreme Programming (XP). Weexplore the commonalities and differences and show thatthe scientific method, by analogy, can be used to betterunderstand Test Driven Development (and vice versa).