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Context: Agile software development (ASD) aims to deliver high-quality software. However, software quality often receives less attention in ASD due to focus on functionality. Objective: Elicit requirements for, design, validate, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based quality-aware ASD process that organizations can use for better integration of...
In agile software development (ASD), where minimal documentation and rapid delivery are the focus, Quality requirements (QRs) are often underspecified and not documented. Guidelines supporting QR documentation task are scarce. The study developed the Agile QR-Doc QR documentation guidelines, which aim to support QR documentation in ASD. We applied...
Technical Debt (TD) is a metaphor reflecting technical compromises that can yield short-term benefits but might hurt the long-term health of a software system. With the increasing amount of data generated when performing software development activities, an emergent research field has gained attention: applying Intelligent Techniques to solve Softwa...
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In despite of agile and rapid software development (ARSD) being researched and applied extensively, managing quality requirements (QRs) are still challenging. As ARSD processes produce a large amount of data, measurement has become a strategy to facilitate QR management.
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This study aims to survey the literature related to QR mana...
Context-Agile software development (ASD) promotes minimal documentation and often prioritizes functional requirements over quality requirements (QRs). The minimal documentation emphasis may be beneficial in reducing time-to-market for software. However, it can also be a concern, especially with QRs, since they are challenging to specify and documen...
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Agile software development (ASD) promotes minimal documentation and often prioritizes functional requirements over quality requirements (QRs). The minimal documentation emphasis may be beneficial in reducing time-to-market for software. However, it can also be a concern, especially with QRs, since they are challenging to specify and documen...
Agile methods can deliver software that fulfills customer needs rapidly and continuously. Quality requirements (QRs) are important in this regard; however, detailed studies on how companies applying agile methods to manage QRs are limited, as are studies on the rationale for choosing specific QR management practices and related challenges. The aim...
Communication between developers and testers can be a rich source of insights into software development processes and practices, which may not be easily discoverable from other means like retrospectives or project roadmaps. With the objective of deriving and capitalizing on potential development-related insights, we analyzed developer-tester commun...
Practitioners adopt software metrics programs to support their software development from the perspective of either overall quality, performance, or both. Current literature details and justifies the role of a metrics program in a software organization’s software development, but empirical evidence to demonstrate its actual use and concomitant benef...
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) have a significant role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), where working software is valued over comprehensive documentation, QRs are often under-specified or not documented. Consequently, they may be handled improperly and result in degraded software quality and increased m...
Quality requirements (QRs) are a key artifact needed to ensure the quality and success of a software system. Despite their importance, QRs rarely get the same degree of attention as their functional counterpart in agile software development (ASD) projects. Moreover, crucial information that can be obtained from software development repositories (e....
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The existing literature in software engineering reports adverse effects of confirmation bias on software testing. Confirmation bias among software testers leads to confirmatory behavior, which is designing or executing relatively more specifi...
Value-Based Software Engineering stresses the role of value in software related decisions. In the context of feature selection, software features judged to provide higher value take priority in the development process. This paper focuses on what value means when selecting software features. Using grounded theory, we conducted and analyzed semi-stru...
Context: Agile software development has become commonplace in software development companies due to the numerous benefits it provides. However, conducting Agile projects is demanding in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), because projects start and end quickly, but still have to fulfil customers’ quality requirements. Objective: This paper aims at...
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) have a significant role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), where working software is valued over comprehensive documentation, QRs are often under-specified or not documented. Consequently, they may be handled improperly and result in degraded software quality and increased m...
Context: Quality requirements (QRs) describe the desired quality of software, and they play an important role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), QRs are often ill-defined and not well addressed due to the focus on quickly delivering functionality. Rapid software development (RSD) approaches (e.g., continuous d...
Background: Despite the growth in the use of software analytics platforms in industry, little empirical evidence is available about the challenges that practitioners face and the value that these platforms provide. Aim: The goal of this research is to explore the benefits of using a software analytics platform for practitioners managing quality. Me...
Software quality poses continuously new challenges in software development, including aspects related to both software development and system usage, which significantly impact the success of software systems. The Q-Rapids H2020 project defines an evidence-based, data-driven quality-aware rapid software development methodology. Quality requirements...
Quality Requirements (QRs) are a key artifact to ensure the quality and success of a software system. Despite its importance, QRs have not reached the same degree of attention as its functional counterparts, especially in the context of trending software development methodologies like Agile Software Development (ASD). Moreover, crucial information...
In the last decade, modern data analytics technologies have enabled the creation of software analytics tools offering real-time visualization of various aspects related to software development and usage. These tools seem to be particularly attractive for companies doing agile software development. However, the information provided by the available...
Existing literature proposes success factors for
establishing metrics programs. However, very few studies focus
on factors that could ensure long-term use of metrics, and even
fewer studies investigate such factors in the context of Agile
Software Development (ASD). Motivated by this knowledge gap,
we aim to identify success factors for operat...
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Existing scientific literature highlights the importance of metrics in Agile Software Development (ASD). Still, empirical investigation into metrics in ASD is scarce, particularly in identifying the rationale and the operational challenges associated with metrics. Under the Q-Rapids project (Horizon 2020), we conducted a multiple case study at four...
The QuASD workshop aims at investigating product and process quality in the context of agile and rapid software development. The objective of the workshop is to exchange challenges, experiences, and solutions among researchers and practitioners to bring agile and rapid software development processes a step further to seamless integrating quality ma...
Numerous software companies are adopting value-based decision making. However, what does value mean for key stakeholders making decisions? How do different stakeholder groups understand value? Without an explicit understanding of what value means, decisions are subject to ambiguity and vagueness, which are likely to bias them. This case study provi...
Numerous software companies are adopting value-based decision making. However, what does value mean for key stakeholders making decisions? How do different stakeholder groups understand value? Without an explicit understanding of what value means, decisions are subject to ambiguity and vagueness, which are likely to bias them. This case study provi...
One source of software project challenges and failures is the systematic errors introduced by human cognitive biases. Although extensively explored in cognitive psychology, investigations concerning cognitive biases have only recently gained popularity in software engineering research. This paper therefore systematically maps, aggregates and synthe...
One source of software project challenges and failures is the systematic errors introduced by human cognitive biases. Although extensively explored in cognitive psychology, investigations concerning cognitive biases have only recently gained popularity in software engineering research. This paper therefore systematically maps, aggregates and synthe...
Existing scientific literature highlights the importance of metrics in Agile Software Development (ASD). Still, empirical investigation into metrics in ASD is scarce, particularly in identifying the rationale and the operational challenges associated with metrics. Under the Q-Rapids project (Horizon 2020), we conducted a multiple case study at four...
To sustain growth, maintain competitive advantage and to innovate, companies must make a paradigm shift in which both short- and long-term value aspects are employed to guide their decision-making. Such need is clearly pressing in innovative industries, such as ICT, and is also the core of Value-based Software Engineering (VBSE). The goal of this p...
Software development processes have evolved according to market needs. Fast changing conditions that characterize current software markets have favored methods advocating speed and flexibility. Agile and Lean software development are in the forefront of these methods. This chapter presents a unified view of Agile software development, Lean software...
Optimal management of software quality calls for appropriate integration of quality management activities into the whole software (engineering) life-cycle. However, despite the competitive advantage of ensuring and maintaining high quality levels, software development methodologies still offer little support for the integration and management of qu...
Requirements identification, specification and management are key activities in the software development process. In the last years, many approaches to these activities have emerged, based on the exploitation of huge amounts of data gathered from software repositories and system usage. The Q-Rapids project proposes the collection and analysis of su...
Context and Motivation: Rapid software development (RSD) refers to the organizational capability to develop, release, and learn from software in rapid cycles without compromising its quality. To achieve RSD, it is essential to understand and manage software quality along the software lifecycle. Question/Problem: Despite the numerous information sou...
Context: Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor that is used to communicate the consequences of poor software development practices to non-technical stakeholders. In recent years, it has gained significant attention in agile software development (ASD). Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze and synthesize the state of the art of TD, and its...
BACKGROUND - The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that evolves through releases every few months is being replaced by continuous evolution of software functionality. OBJECTIVE - This study aims to classify and analyse li...
The software industry's current decision-making relating to product/project management and development is largely done in a value neutral setting, in which cost is the primary driver for every decision taken. However, numerous studies have shown that the primary critical success factor that differentiates successful products/projects from failed on...
In software development organizations, large-scale distributed projects pose many challenges, such as hierarchical requirements, large team size, and managing workflow. Agile methods, like Scrum, seem to have limitations in addressing those issues. Kanban offers an interesting alternative in this concern by setting work-in-progress (WIP) limits to...
Collaboration between industry practitioners and researchers has been reported as a challenge to conduct empirical studies in software engineering. Gaining practitioners interest in research activities is challenging in the software development industry characterized by tough competition and short time-to-market. Often, practitioners do not see the...
Lean Software Development has attracted a great deal of attention during last years. However, it remains unclear how Lean is implemented in a domain that fundamentally differs from the automotive industry in which it originated. This study provides empirical evidence of how Lean can be combined with Agile methods to enhance software development pro...
Lean principles have been seen as a potential answer to the
current issues of faster development cycles and more
frequent releases, as software businesses are changing
towards more service-oriented offerings and cloud-based
business structures. Agile software development methods
have played an important role in resolving the same issues
at de...
Software engineering is advancing according to market needs. Consequently, software
development methods that initially caused controversies such as Agile, and more recently Lean,
are increasingly being adopted by the software industry. Particularly, Lean Software
Development, which was initially regarded as one of the Agile methods, is acquiring an...
The potential shown by Lean in different domains has aroused interest in the software industry. However, it remains unclear how Lean can be effectively applied in a domain such as software development that is fundamentally different from manufacturing. This study explores how Lean principles are implemented in software development companies and the...
Earlier empirical studies have demonstrated the interest that agile methods have generated in the software industry. Currently, lean approaches are increasingly adopted for complementing agile methods in software processes. With the goal of providing up-to-day results that can be used by organizations implementing or planning to implement agile and...
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Lean principles have attracted the attention of software development companies due to their potential to improve competitiveness. However, the application of such principles in the software domain is still in its infancy. This paper presents a proposal for adapting the Lean Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) to guide the transformation of soft...
Agile software development has been widely accepted by the software industry as a means for improving flexibility and innovation capabilities. More recently, lean thinking has emerged as a new paradigm to make software development more efficient. In practice, quite often lean is seen as an evolution of agile when agile is not considered to be enoug...
Nowadays, the software industry has at its disposal several approaches that accentuate the concept of value, e.g., lean or agile software development. However, our experience has shown that arriving at an understanding of what is meant by value in a given organizational context presents real challenges. And, one of the reasons for having those chal...
Nowadays the software industry is applying agile methods widely. However, there appears to be a lack of comprehensive guidelines and strategies addressing agile adoption. In addition, agile methods and practices often have to be tailored to be integrated into existing processes. In this study, agile adoption frameworks and strategies discussed in t...
In the intense competitive software development environment, the ability to quicker create and deliver software solutions that better address the customer real needs is a pursued target. Since software decisions are inextricably related to system-level decisions, the integration of value-oriented and economic perspectives into software engineering...
FLEXI Agile Adoption Industrial Inventory (FLEXI AAII) was intended to amass current knowledge and experiences about agile
adoption strategies in large settings. It was conducted among industrial partners of FLEXI project (see acknowledgements)
by reviewing project deliverables, publications and other relevant material. The ground for FLEXI AAII wa...
Resumen El objetivo de este estudio es analizar el estado de la adopción de metodologías ágiles en la industria software española comparándolo con la europea. Se han empleado cuestionarios, tanto en el contexto ágil como en el convencional, para evaluar el uso de diferentes metodologías y prácticas ágiles, estrategias empleadas en el proceso de ado...
The main concern of the software industry is to deliver more products in shorter time-cycles to customers with an acceptable
economic justification. In virtue of these concerns, the software industry and researchers in the field of software engineering
have engaged in the process of adopting lean principles. In this paper, we are seeking the knowl...
gile methods have appeared as an attractive alternative to conventional methodologies. These methods try to reduce the time to market and, indirectly, the cost of the product through flexible development and deep customer involvement. The processes related to requirements have been extensively studied in literature, in most cases in the frame of co...
FLEXI Project Management Survey (FLEXI PMS) has been established to gain detailed knowledge on how the software industry –
in particular successful companies – manages agile software development. FLEXI PMS investigates the actual agile values, principles,
practices and contexts. The survey is supported by a careful literature review and analysis of...
In recent years, Agile methodologies have increased their relevance in software development, through the application of different
testing techniques like unit or acceptance testing. Tests play in agile methodologies a similar role that in waterfall process
models: check conformance. Nevertheless the scenario is not the same The contribution of this...
Las actuales características de dinamismo y variabilidad de la industria software han precisado replantear los cimientos sobre los que se sustenta el desarrollo software convencional. Un reciente estudio realizado por Boehm en [1], sobre la tendencia en ingeniería del software, indica que el mercado actual está caracterizado por el rápido desarroll...
