Agile development is an approach for managing and building software projects and teams, in order to satisfy customers by providing adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery and continuous improvement. It is a collection of methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Feature Driven Development (FDD). Even if agile methods are rapid and flexible to change, they sti...

This paper summarizes results of a five-year, multidisciplinary, university-industry collaborative effort investigating design issues in agile manufacturing. The focus of this project is specifically on light mechanical assembly, with the demand that new assembly tasks be implementable quickly, economically, and effectively. Key to achieving these goals is the ease of equipment and software reu...

Software development industry is inventing new development methodologies in last 10 years for improving the existing developing tools, process and delivering a high-quality software to end customer in short time. In recent year's waterfall development becomes less attractive in the software industry and shifted its attention towards the new software development methodologies such as agile. Agil...

Requirements are critical for the success of software projects. Requirements are practically difficult to produce, as the hardest stage of building a software system is to decide what the system should do. Moreover, requirements errors are expensive to fix in the later phases of the software development life cycle. The rapidly changing business environment is highly challenging traditional Requ...

Software Engineering Discipline is constantly achieving momentum from past two decades. In last decade, remarkable progress has been observed. New process models that are introduced from time to time in order to keep pace with multidimensional demands of the industry. New software development paradigms are finding its place in industry such as Agile Software Development, Reuse based Development...

Modeling is an essential part in software development projects. This shifts the focus of software development from writing code to building models. Consequently Object Management Group (OMG) introduced Model Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is the open approach to control both business and technology changes. MDA is created to help UML designers to cover all specification of the software system w...

In a fast changing business environment, companies that can innovate better and faster, and respond quickly to customer’s requirements, will win. One of the most important industries of knowledge-based economy, by all means, is the software industry. In order to achieve business success and to innovate in the market, almost every large organization relies on software. The emergence of Web 2.0 a...

Modern cloud applications, generally, demand complex service topologies, e.g., for meeting scalability, maintenance, or security requirements. Thus, often, it is desirable to increase the complexity of service topologies in cloud applications. The required changes, however, may constitute a burden for improving cloud applications. Changes, overall, are undertaken frequently in prototyping or wh...

The proponents of agile methodologies suggest that many of the inhibitors to system development methodology adoption have largely been addressed in the underlying principles of agile methods. This paper reports the experience of a small team developing Web publishing software tools for use in building Web sites for online delivery of tertiary education study materials. These early adopters succ...

A new set of software development methodologies has become prevalent in previous years, commonly known as Agile techniques. Pair programming (an activity from agile techniques)where two programmers work on the same module at one computer; with one programmer takes responsibilities of writing the actual code and the other one takes the responsibility for the monitoring of strategies, designing a...