Towards Software Configuration Management for Test-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development is a technique where each change to the observable behavior of a program is motivated by a failing test.. High design quality is maintained by continuous,small design improvements called refactorings. While so me:integrated. development environments support automated refactoring, they do not handle problems. that occur if refactorings axe used in development teams or on published interfaces. This paper outlines the idea of a specialized software configuration management tool which integrates into a development. environment to record the steps of Test-Driven Development as operations. These operations axe useful for summarizing local changes, merging parallel changes and for migrating code that uses published interfaces.