Examples of Traditional Software Development Methodologies Waterfall http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.cs.umd.edu/class... Spiral http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.sce.carleton.ca/... Rational Unified Process (RUP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www-306.ibm.com/soft... CMMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi... ......
This article provides a nice introduction to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and a fair assesment of its advantages and disadvantages: http://www.developer.com/de... It also included this nice little reference list of unit testing tools available for different programming languages: C++ cppUnit .Net csUnit C CUnit Borland Delphi DUnitDelphi JUnit extension for database projects DBUnit Java JUnit .Net library for database projects NDbUnit Oracle Unit Tester OUnit PHP PHPUnit Python ......