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test-driven development

software development methodology involving repetition of a very short development cycle: requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the software is improved to pass the new tests, only
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test-driven development

Summary

test-driven development is a software development methodology[1]. It draws 1,296 Wikipedia views per month (software_development_methodology category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • test-driven development's instance of is recorded as software development methodology[3].
  • test-driven development's subclass of is recorded as software development[4].
  • test-driven development's has part is recorded as unit testing[5].
  • test-driven development's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_2_v[6].
  • test-driven development's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 975279[7].
  • test-driven development's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tdd[8].
  • test-driven development's Quora topic ID is recorded as Test-Driven-Development[9].
  • test-driven development's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19656216[10].
  • test-driven development's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 4478048[11].
  • test-driven development's Semantic Scholar topic ID is recorded as 99317[12].
  • test-driven development's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 테스트 주도 개발[13].
  • test-driven development's GitHub topic is recorded as tdd[14].
  • test-driven development's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C4478048[15].
  • test-driven development's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 302078[16].
  • test-driven development's FOLDOC ID is recorded as test-driven+development[17].

Why It Matters

test-driven development draws 1,296 Wikipedia views per month (software_development_methodology category, ranking #2 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

software development

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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