Assessing agile methods: an empirical study

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Vasconcelos, Alexandre¹  Sampaio, Pedro R. Falcone¹  Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Recife, Brazil¹  Sampaio, Américo¹  University of Manchester, UK¹  Lancaster University, UK¹ 

关键词: Software Process;    Agile Processes;    XP;    XWebProcess;    Experimentation.;   

DOI  :  10.1007/BF03192357

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Springer U K

【 摘 要 】

Agile software processes emerged to address the issue of building software on time and within the planned budget. To adopt an agile process, it is imperative to analyze and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting high quality software development while complying with stringent time constraints. In this paper we describe an agile method for Web-based application development (XWebProcess) and an experiment conducted with a group of forty senior undergraduate students to assess the quality/speed effectiveness of the proposed method vis-à-vis the effectiveness of Extreme Programming (XP). The results have shown that the process proposed is equally agile when compared to XP, moreover, surveys conducted as part of the experiment pointed out that XWebProcess is more suitable to Web development in dimensions such as requirements gathering, user interface and navigation design, and software testing, therefore leading to better quality software.

【 授权许可】

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