Test-Driven Development for Parallel Applications

This paper describes the use and benefits of the testdriven development paradigm in parallel application development. A brief background on test-driven development for traditional applications, techniques for parallel development, and the xUnit framework is given. This work then gives direction for using the given technologies for the development of parallel applications using the test-driven development process by mapping the functions of a parallel language to the functions of the testing framework as illustrated by a programming assignment given to college sophomores.