Breaking the ice for agile development of embedded software: an industry experience report

Manhart, Peter; Schneider, Kurt

doi:10.1109/icse.2004.1317460

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“…However, there is an interesting paper that describes the experience of applying Agile approaches to the development of firmware for the Intel Itanium processor family (Greene, 2004). Manhart and Schneider (Manhart and Schneider, 2004) also reported a successful industrial experience when partially adopting agile methods in the production of software for embedded systems. Indeed, they made slight modifications in a well established software development process for the automotive branch by adopting some agile elements in order to adequate their process to new needs as flexibility and high speed software production.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Semiformal Development Methodology for Embedded Systems

Cordeiro

Barreto²,

Oliveira

2008

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract:In recent days, the amount of functions has increased significantly in embedded products so that systems development methodologies play an important role to ensure the product's quality, cost, and time. Furthermore, this complexity coupled with constantly evolving specifications, has led to propose a semiformal development methodology to support the building of embedded real-time systems. A platform-based design approach has been used to balance costs and time-to-market in relation to performance and functionality constraints. We performed three expressive case studies and we concluded that the proposed methodology significantly reduces design time and improves software modularity and reliability.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Semiformal Development Methodology for Embedded Systems

Cordeiro

Barreto²,

Oliveira

2008

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

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“…The Boehm and Turner's model [8] provides a good starting point for agility evaluation but does not address any specifics regarding the application of an agile method. The main challenges for the organizations are still how to tailor agile methods as a part of the product development [6] and how to assess product development agility [8]. Agile Assessment provides a solution for these challenges.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…XP) and use it as such. The purpose is rather to apply the best agile practices as a part of the organization's current SW development practices [6]. This would need evaluation which charts the areas of the improvement of the organization's current SW development mapping with the most suitable agile practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Approach for Assessing Suitability of Agile Solutions: A Case Study

Pikkarainen

Passoja²

2005

Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering

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Abstract. Dynamic market situation and changing customer requirements generate more demands for the product development. Product releases should be developed and managed in short iterations answering to the rapid external changes and keeping up a high quality level. Agile practices (such as the best practices in Extreme Programming and Scrum) offer a great way of monitoring and controlling rapid product development cycles and release development. One problem in product development projects, however, is how to apply agile methods and principles as a part of the complex product development. The purpose of this paper is to describe, how Agile Assessment was conducted in a case company in order to support product development and customer support improvement. During the experiment it was found that Agile Assessment is an efficient method to clarify what agile practices are suitable for the organization's product development and customer co-operation. Another finding was that the use of the best suitable agile practices would improve incremental development monitoring and traceability of requirements.

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“…In addition, Gary et al [6] successfully applied Agile Methodologies to the software development of an image-guided surgical toolkit system while Manhart et al [7] adopted Agile Methodologies to the software component of an automatic breaking system at Daimler-Chrysler. These two examples defy Boehm's [8] claim that Agile Methodologies might not be suitable for life-critical embedded systems.…”

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Development of a Wireless Environmental Data Acquisition Prototype Adopting Agile Practices: An Experience Report

Celicourt¹,

Sam²,

Piasecki³

2016

JSEA

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The traditional software development model commonly named "waterfall" is unable to cope with the increasing functionality and complexity of modern embedded systems. In addition, it is unable to support the ability for businesses to quickly respond to new market opportunities due to changing requirements. As a response, the software development community developed the Agile Methodologies (e.g., extreme Programming, Scrum) which were also adopted by the Embedded System community. However, failures and bad experiences in applying Agile Methodologies to the development of embedded systems have not been reported in the literature. Therefore, this paper contributes a detailed account of our first-time experiences adopting an agile approach in the prototype development of a wireless environment data acquisition system in an academic environment. We successfully applied a subset of the extreme Programming (XP) methodology to our software development using the Python programming language, an experience that demonstrated its benefits in shaping the design of the software and also increasing productivity. We used an incremental development approach for the hardware components and adopted a "cumulative testing" approach. For the overall development process management, however, we concluded that the Promise/Commitment-Based Project Management (PB-PM/CBPM) was better suited. We discovered that software and hardware components of embedded systems are best developed in parallel or near-parallel. We learned that software components that pass automated tests may not survive in the tests against the hardware. Throughout this rapid prototyping effort, factors like team size and our availability as graduate students were major obstacles to fully apply the XP methodology.

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Breaking the ice for agile development of embedded software: an industry experience report

Cited by 39 publications

References 3 publications

Towards a Semiformal Development Methodology for Embedded Systems

Towards a Semiformal Development Methodology for Embedded Systems

An Approach for Assessing Suitability of Agile Solutions: A Case Study

Development of a Wireless Environmental Data Acquisition Prototype Adopting Agile Practices: An Experience Report

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