Test Driven Development and the Scientific Method

The scientific method serves as a good metaphor for several practices in Extreme Programming (XP). We explore the commonalities and differences and show that the scientific method, by analogy, can be used to better understand Test Driven Development (and vice versa).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AGILEDC
• Authors: Rick Mugridge
• Keywords: AGILEDC 2003, Scientific Method, Software Engineering, Test Driven Development, The Scientific Method