Related Work in Industrial and Academic Environments -- Research Goals, Conceptual Model and Variables Selection -- Experiments Planning, Execution and Analysis Procedure -- Effect on the Percentage of Acceptance Tests Passed -- Effect on the Number of Acceptance Tests Passed per Hour -- Effect on Internal Quality Indicators -- Effects on Unit Tests – Preliminary Analysis -- Meta-Analysis -- Discussion, Conclusions and FutureWork.

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