Five steps to effective test development

How Effective is Test-Driven Development?

Test-Driven Development (TDD) [Beck 2002] is one of the most referenced, yet least used agile practices in industry. Its neglect is due mostly to our lack of understanding of its effects on people, processes, and products. Although most people agree that writing a test case before code promotes more robust implementation and a better design, the unknown costs associated with TDD’s effects and t...

Five StepS to improving Security in embedded SyStemS

How to hinder tuberculosis control: five easy steps.

The control of tuberculosis remains an area of interest and concern. Some recent Lancet papers bring positive news, albeit with important questions left unanswered. Wang and colleagues' longitudinal study1 concluded that tuberculosis prevalence in China was reduced by shifting to the recommended approach based on directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) for tuberculosis diagnosis and tr...

Five Steps to Text Mining in Biomedical Literature

In this paper we discuss our plans and progress on analysing and integrating various methods of text mining in biomedical literature for a Ph.D project. The framework is a client­based search engine that integrates different machine learning and text mining techniques. For convenience all text mining procedures have been split into five steps, s...

Five Steps to Establish Software Performance Engineering in Your Organization

Most software performance problems are due to fundamental architecture or design problems. Thus they are introduced early in development, but are typically not discovered until late, when they are more difficult and costly to fix. Software Performance Engineering (SPE) is a systematic, quantitative approach for cost-effectively building performance into software systems. It consists of a proces...