Agile Software Engineering, a proposed extension for in-house software development
Volume 5 Issue 2 2011
Download| Author(s): | Muhammad Misbahuddin, M. Ansari |
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| Abstract | Software maintenance is one of the major part of the software development life cycle and it cannot be detached from other software development life cycle process. One of the major concerns of any software maintenance organization is to analyze, estimate and improve the productivity of maintenance process. In this paper, both qualitative and quantitative analysis was done through incremental experiments to improve the maintenance and evolution process for a particular environment. The purpose of this research is to present the result of introducing and evaluating agile process based on Extreme Programming (XP) in a software maintenance environment for an in house software development team. Prior to introducing an agile process, an assessment of the organization's software maintenance and evolution processes was done, to understand what should be introduced and why. It was difficult to introduce XP in it original appearance to the case organization, so it is necessary to redesign many of the practices in order for them to fit the needs of the software maintenance team. After, observing and examine the existing maintenance process and related issues of the particular case organization, some agile practices was selected and redesigned to improve the overall quality and performance of the particular environment. This research successfully proved that adoption and modification of agile practices in particular environment improve the overall quality of maintenance process and overcome the addressed issues of in-house development environment. |
| Keywords | Agile methods, Extreme programming, Software development, In-House software development, Extension in agile software development, Agile software maintenance. |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Type | Research paper, manuscript, article |
| Journal Name | Journal of Information & Communication Technology | Publisher Name | ILMA University | Jel Classification | - | DOI | - | ISSN no (E, Electronic) | 2075-7239 | ISSN no (P, Print) | 2415-0169 | Country | Pakistan | City | Karachi | Institution Type | University | Journal Type | Open Access | Manuscript Processing | Blind Peer Reviewed | Format | Paper Link | https://jict.ilmauniversity.edu.pk/journal/jict/5.2/3.pdf | Page | 61-73 |