Software development is a complex, knowledgeintensive, and innovative process that frequently takes place in an extremely competitive and highly uncertain environment. For a long time, software developers have used traditional-structured approaches that are more disciplined and focus on coordinated actions to ensure the software goals are met. Recently, this traditional way of software developm...

Agile approaches to software development provide flexibility within the method, but provide little or no flexibility to support software process improvement (SPI). This second kind of flexibility is important to permit organizations to improve with time. To accomplish such improvement, a method-engineering approach is shown here to be useful. Examples of the application of method engineering to...

Various agile software development methodologies, since their commencement, encouraged the development of high quality software product. Quality of a product is the compelling trait that plays a vital role in any product‘s success. Usability engineering and User centered design are user-centered approaches, covering the customer‘s concerns. The way these approaches are understood and carried ou...

Agile Software Development (ASD) is used facing the challenge to reduce time to market and to deliver systems, which meets customer expectations. In ASD, Requirements Engineering (RE) is carried out in an iterative manner and therefore established approaches have to be adopted with strong focus on stakeholder and user involvement. The results of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) show that th...

The agile approach to software development is now standard practice in many organisations. In innovation diffusion terms, its uptake seems to be well into the majority adoption phase, with a large number of organisations now claiming some level of agile activity. Confirming adoption progress requires appropriate periodic surveys of industrial practice. The purpose of this paper is to present an...

This paper investigates how the integration of agile methods and User-Centered Design (UCD) is carried out in practice. For this study we have applied grounded theory as a suitable qualitative approach to determine what is happening in actual practice. The data was collected by semi-structured interviews with the professionals who have already worked in the integrated agile UCD methodology. Fur...

One of the common problems encountered in software engineering is addressing and responding to the changing nature of requirements. While several approaches have been devised to address this issue, ranging from instilling resistance to changing requirements in order to mitigate impact to project schedules, to developing an agile mindset towards requirements, the approach discussed in this paper...

Modern software systems are continuously evolving, often because systems requirements change over time. Responding to requirements changes is one of the principles of agile methodologies. In this paper we envision the seamless integration of automated verification techniques within agile methodologies, thanks to the support for incrementality. Incremental verification accommodates the changes t...

Agile software development has challenged the traditional ways of delivering software as it provides a very different approach to software development. In recent decades, software process improvement (SPI) has been widely studied in the context of traditional software development, and its strengths and weaknesses have been recognised. As organisations increasingly adopt agile software developme...

Agile development methodologies promise higher customer satisfaction, lower defect rates, faster development times and a solution to rapidly changing requirements. Plan-driven approaches promise predictability, stability, and high assurance. However, both approaches have shortcomings that, if left unaddressed, can lead to project failure. The challenge is to balance the two approaches to take a...