Prototype of the Framework CATdd to Support Continuous Development in Test Driven Development

Abstract

TDD is a development methodology to improve software quality. In this study, we prototype the framework CATdd (Continuous Automated Test Driven Development), which supports continuous development with TDD. CATdd reduces the time of implementation step in TDD by generating new source code that passes tests using LLM. CATdd maintains consistency with other source code in the project by using existing source code and related source code to prompt. As a result of the evaluation experiments, the time for the implementation step in TDD was reduced by 94% for a simple task and by 56% for another more complex task. In conclusion, CATdd is useful to support continuous development.