While research has demonstrated positive productivity and quality gains from using agile software development methods (SDMs), some experts argue that no single SDM suits every project context. We lack empirical evidence about the project contextual factors that influence when one should use these methods. Research suggests several factors to explain agile method appropriateness; however, genera...

Agile software development methods have been developed and evolved since early 1990s. Due to the short development life cycle through an iterative and incremental process, the agile methods have been used widely in business sectors where requirements are relatively unstable. This paper explains the differences between traditional software development methods and agile software development metho...

Agile methodology continues to evolve due to business and technological demands. However, there are few studies reported related to encouraging new organizations to adopt agile practices especially in Asian countries. This paper presents the initial findings from an action research study on agile-extreme programming (XP) adoption amongst software engineering (SE) teams. The results showed that ...

Lightweight, 'agile' software development methods are not a replacement for traditional, heavyweight methods. But under certain assumptions, they are a welcome alternative in many areas of software development. In this paper, we outline the di erences between agile and traditional approaches of software development and examine how development tools are used in the latter. We consider experience...

This article compares traditional requirements engineering approaches and agile software development. Our paper analyzes commonalities and differences of both approaches and determines possible ways how agile software development can benefit from requirements engineering methods. Index Terms Requirements Engineering, Agile Development

Agile methods and MDE are often considered to be polar opposites of each other. Agile methods are fast, adaptive, responsive; MDE is heavyweight, planfirst, and requires high up-front investment. But are agile methods and MDE really so contradictory? Or could they co-exist and even work together to maximize each other’s benefits? In this talk, I will reflect upon our recent study with two large...

In software development process, the requirements are not stable and keep on changing according to the customers. In such dynamic situations the developers are required to use dynamic approaches for software development. The agile methodology provides dynamic methods such as extreme programming, scrum, feature driven approach and dynamic system development method. Studies reveals agile methods ...

Agile software development methods have become increasingly popular in the last years. However, agile methods don’t specify explicitly how to deal with the quality requirements. Moreover there is little known about how organizations currently deal with this shortcoming. Based on several case studies this research will investigate real-world large-scale distributed agile projects to understand t...

Agile software development (Agile) is being practiced in software industry nowadays as it fits the current business environment which focuses on delivering software to market as quickly as possible. In addition, Agile practitioners claim that it produces software with good quality. Thus, our research aims to identify Agile practices that should be followed in order to produce good quality softw...

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions on the research activities presented at XP 2014, the 15th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, which was held May 26-30, 2014 in Rome, Italy. XP conferences are major supporters of the agile vision of software developers, the related multidisciplinary research, and bridging industria...