ScrumOntoBDD: Agile software development based on scrum, ontologies and behaviour-driven development

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Wanderley Lopes de Souza¹  Pedro Lopes de Souza¹  Luís Ferreira Pires² 

[1] Department of Computing, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;

关键词: Agile Software Development;    Scrum;    BDD;    Ontologies;    Learning Management Systems;    Medical Education;    Active Learning Methodologies;    Problem-Based Learning;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13173-021-00114-w

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

When developing a Learning Management System (LMS) using Scrum, we noticed that it was quite often necessary to redefine some system behaviour scenarios, due to ambiguities in the requirement specifications, or due to misinterpretations of stories reported by the Product Owners (POs). The definition of test suites was also cumbersome, resulting in test suites that were incomplete or did not at all comply with the system requirements. Based on this experience and to deal with these problems, in this paper, we propose the ScrumOntoBDD approach to agile software development, which combines Scrum, ontologies and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). This approach is centred on the concepts and techniques of Scrum and BDD and focuses on the planning and analysis phases of the software life cycle, since the BDD tools currently provide little support to these phases, while most of the problems during the LMS development were found exactly there. We claim that our approach improves the software development practices in this respect. Furthermore, ScrumOntoBDD employs ontologies in order to reduce ambiguities intrinsic to the use of a natural language as a BDD ubiquitous language. In this paper, we illustrate and systematically evaluate our approach, showing that it is beneficial since it improves the communication between members of an agile development team.

【 授权许可】

CC BY