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- Population: A classroom of students, most without professional experience

- Sample size: 21 students

- Study duration: 2 days

- Team size: Individual

Tests are most useful when refactoring someone else's long-forgotten code; the sort of thing that happens frequently in long-running projects consisting of large teams. In other words, the "real world".

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