Greetings, hackers,
Hongbing and I just finished a submission to SPW 2006 on Zorro. Check it out if you like,
and let us know what you think:
Title: Automated recognition of low-level process: A pilot validation study of Zorro for
test-driven development, Hongbing Kou and Philip M. Johnson, Submitted to the 2006
Workshop on Software Process, May, 2006.
Abstract: Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is
complying with the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process. Automated recognition of TDD
could benefit the software engineering community in a variety of ways, from pedagogical
aids to support the learning of test-driven dqesign, to support for more rigorous
empirical studies on the effectiveness of TDD in practice. This paper presents the Zorro
system and the results of a pilot validation study, which shows that Zorro was able to
recognize test-driven design episodes correctly 89% of the time. The results also
indicate ways to improve Zorro's classification accuracy further, and provide evidence
for the effectiveness of this approach to low-level software process recognition.
URL: http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/techreports/06-02/06-02.pdf
