Applying Test Driven Development in the Big Data Domain – Lessons From the Literature

Abstract

Big data has evolved to a ubiquitous part of today's society. However, despite its popularity, the development and testing of the corresponding applications are still very challenging tasks that are being actively researched in pursuit of ways for improvement. One newly introduced proposition is the application of test driven development (TDD) in the big data domain. To facilitate this concept, existing literature reviews on TDD have been analyzed to extract insights from those sources of aggregated knowledge, which can be applied to this new setting. After introducing the different studies, lessons for the application of TDD in the big data domain are deducted and discussed. Finally, avenues for future works are proposed.