Hello All,
I am working with WinCE devices these days and also helping a new initiative in Unit Testing at our company.
I was wondering if you have been involved in any ROI studies regarding Unit Testing and if so, what had been your findings.
Thanks for your help and have a great day :)
Bob Hanson
Looking for ROI information on Unit Testing
Programm3r
Hi Bob,
We have been involved in a few studies regarding the usefulness of Test Driven Development. The studies confirm the well held belief that although Test Driven Development takes significantly more coding time than coding without TDD, the quality of the code produced (measured in bugs found) is much higher than code produced without TDD. It is therefore well worth the investment in the additional time required to persue it as it leads to less bugs and the bugs which are found are discovered earlier in the development life cycle (resulting in less cost).
It should be noted that the same results are not obtained if a user writes the unit tests after producing the code. I am not aware of any studies that have researched the ROI of writing the unit tests afterwards.
One such study regarding the usefulness can be found at http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~ieb/Test%20driven%20development.pdf
Best,
Naysawn
bessermt
Hi Bob - is there any particular piece of information that you are looking for Do you have any set of queries that you would like to be answered Perhaps, that may yield more replies if you have a definite set of queries that you are looking for.