การกระตุ้นความสนใจของนักศึกษาในการพัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์โดย Test-Driven Development

Abstract

Nowadays, Thailand's software industry encounters the problem of an insufficient number of high quality software developers. One of the reasons is that only a few graduates who studied software development related courses are interested in software developer professionals. Although many universities in Thailand have launched software development programs, new graduates could not break into a competitive software industry. Researchers and educational practitioners have been adopting more software engineering practices in software development courses. For example, the Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach has been taught at the software development class to improve software quality. Many studies indicate the advantages and impacts of TDD on teaching in an academic environment. However, none of them explore students' attitudes on using TDD. With the shortage of Thai software developers and lacking empirical evidence, the author has seen the essence of how TDD can encourage students to be more interested in software development. The author conducted the research project with the professor to provide TDD knowledge to students who later employed TDD on their assigned class projects. Then, the author empirically evaluated the outcome of applying TDD to software development projects. The results of this study show that the students' interest in software development was enhanced, TDD would be an alternative approach to improve the study of software development existed in universities. Subsequently, the academies would also produce high quality software developers for the software industry. Additionally, the empirical evidence of this research would be beneficial for software engineering researchers to invent an approach to enhance students' attention to software development.