Test-Driven Development: An Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practice (Hardcover)

Agile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long duration to more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain evidence for different processes, methods and tools has been emphasized.

Lech Madeyski offers the first in-depth evaluation of agile methods. He presents in detail the results of three different experiments, including concrete examples of how to conduct statistical analysis with meta analysis or the SPSS package, using as evaluation indicators the number of acceptance tests passed (overall and per hour) and design complexity metrics.

The book is appropriate for graduate students, researchers and advanced professionals in software engineering. It proves the real benefits of agile software development, provides readers with in-depth insights into experimental methods in the context of agile development, and discusses various validity threats in empirical studies.

敏捷方法在工業界和研究領域越來越受到關注。許多行業正在將傳統的長期瀑布項目轉變為更增量、迭代和敏捷的實踐方式。同時，評估和獲取不同流程、方法和工具的證據的需求也被強調。

Lech Madeyski提供了對敏捷方法的首次深入評估。他詳細介紹了三個不同實驗的結果，包括如何使用元分析或SPSS軟件進行統計分析，並以接受測試通過的數量（整體和每小時）和設計複雜度指標作為評估指標的具體示例。

這本書適合軟件工程的研究生、研究人員和高級專業人士閱讀。它證明了敏捷軟件開發的真正好處，為讀者提供了在敏捷開發背景下實驗方法的深入見解，並討論了實證研究中的各種有效性威脅。