Agile software development stresses individuals and interaction, customer collaboration, short development cycles and frequent deliveries of valuable software. From the testing and quality assurance viewpoint these principles are challenging, and agile methods seem to lack aspects that traditionally are considered important and fundamental to successful quality assurance. In this paper we ident...

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the article presents new educational course dedicated to Agile Software Development. The course consists of theoretical and practical parts. Theoretical part gives an overview of classical agile methodologies, widely accepted by industry practices and some important programming principles and patterns. The second part of the course includes several labs, aimed for practical usage of agile devel...

Agile techniques may produce software faster as well as enhance software quality so that they fulfill quality requirements of the product. In this paper we have considered some quality factors and we have shown how agile techniques enhance software quality. We have presented an agile development life cycle that showing its software quality support processes. Finally we have shown summarization ...

Self-organizing Agile teams need a supportive environment to emerge and flourish. Through a Grounded Theory study of 58 Agile practitioners across 23 different software organizations in New Zealand and India, we found that senior management support is a critical environmental factor influencing selforganizing Agile teams. We describe the influence of senior management, and show how their suppor...

This chapter gives an overview of agile software development processes and techniques. The first part of the chapter covers the major agile project management techniques with a focus on project planning. Iteration planning and interaction design approaches are given special focus. The second part of the chapter covers agile quality assurance with a focus on test-driven development and the state...

Introduction This research explored aspects of agile development teamwork initiatives associated with positive socio-psychological phenomena, with a focus on phenomena outside the scope of traditional management, organizational, and software engineering research. The motivation for this research was to better explore the animation and excitement observed in practitioners of agile software devel...

Trust increases team performance in software development teams. Trust among team members is imperative for the success of an Agile project. Trust is, however, affected in distributed teams. We conducted a Grounded Theory study involving 45 Agile practitioners from 28 different software companies in the USA, Western Europe, Australia and India to investigate the techniques for building trust in ...