%0 Conference Paper %1 1384306 %A Kollanus, Sami %A Isomöttönen, Ville %B ITiCSE '08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education %C New York, NY, USA %D 2008 %I ACM %K programming software tdd testing tool %P 124--127 %R 10.1145/1384271.1384306 %T Test-driven development in education: experiences with critical viewpoints %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1384271.1384306&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=98271021&CFTOKEN=94124359 %X Test-Driven Development (TDD) was applied in educational setting right after it became well-known as a key practice of Extreme Programming (XP). Basically, there are many studies reporting positive experiences on TDD applied in different levels of a curriculum. In this paper, we discuss the role of TDD in education through the students' experiences. In our experiment, a challenging programming task was applied in order to see what kind of difficulties the students would encounter and discuss. The students' answers revealed several topics that require a careful treatment in teaching to avoid conceptual confusion. For example, the topics include the scalability of TDD, extent of single test, and discipline. %@ 978-1-60558-078-4

@inproceedings{1384306, abstract = {Test-Driven Development (TDD) was applied in educational setting right after it became well-known as a key practice of Extreme Programming (XP). Basically, there are many studies reporting positive experiences on TDD applied in different levels of a curriculum. In this paper, we discuss the role of TDD in education through the students' experiences. In our experiment, a challenging programming task was applied in order to see what kind of difficulties the students would encounter and discuss. The students' answers revealed several topics that require a careful treatment in teaching to avoid conceptual confusion. For example, the topics include the scalability of TDD, extent of single test, and discipline.}, added-at = {2010-08-16T09:05:52.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Kollanus, Sami and Isom\"{o}tt\"{o}nen, Ville}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21d2258a8ca0b3c9bccb5246cc0a42ea9/ajlakanen}, booktitle = {ITiCSE '08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education}, description = {Test-driven development in education}, doi = {10.1145/1384271.1384306}, interhash = {d72dd2edda6f3d73b803e0c69f465468}, intrahash = {1d2258a8ca0b3c9bccb5246cc0a42ea9}, isbn = {978-1-60558-078-4}, keywords = {programming software tdd testing tool}, location = {Madrid, Spain}, pages = {124--127}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2010-08-16T09:05:52.000+0200}, title = {Test-driven development in education: experiences with critical viewpoints}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1384271.1384306&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=98271021&CFTOKEN=94124359}, year = 2008 }