Empirical studies of embedded software development using agile methods

Xie, Min; Shen, Mengjiao; Rong, Guoping; Dong, Shuai

doi:10.1145/2372233.2372240

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“…Most of these published reviews focus on agile methods such as [3], [9], [12], [21], and [26]. In addition to these, there are also some that focus on specific agile methods, such as on the most common one, Scrum [7].…”

Section: Previous Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agile practices in practice

Diebold

Dahlem

2014

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

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Background: Agile software development has been increasingly adopted during the last two decades. Nonetheless, many studies show that using agile methods as defined in the literature does not work very well. Thus, companies adapt these methods by just using parts of them (called agile practices). Objective: The goal of the literature study was to understand which agile practices are used in industry under different circumstances, such as different project types, domains, or processes. Method: We conducted a mapping study of empirical studies using agile practices in industry. The search strategy identified 1110 studies, of which 24 studies including 68 projects were analyzed. Results: The results of this study show that there are practices that are used more often and that the domain and the process also influence the application of different practices. Additionally, the findings confirm the assumption of Ken Schwaber that in most cases, agile methods are not used "completely" but that rather certain practices are adopted. Conclusions: Our results can be used by researchers to get a better idea of where and how to follow up research as well as by practitioners to get a better idea of which practices fit their needs and which are used by others. Therefore, our contribution increases the body of knowledge in agile practices usage.

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to these, there are also some that focus on specific agile methods, such as on the most common one, Scrum [7]. Some of these reviews also try to focus on a specific domain, such as embedded systems ( [3] and [26]). …”

Section: Previous Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agile practices in practice

Diebold

Dahlem

2014

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

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“…concluded that using agile in such projects holds a positive impression [37]. The authors presented many challenges of applying agile in embedded software projects, such as: development team challenges, time constraints and budget.…”

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Agile Software Development Methodologies: Survey of Surveys

Al-Zewairi¹,

Biltawi²,

Etaiwi³

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Agile software design and development methodologies have been gaining rigorous attention in the software engineering research community since their early introduction in the mid-nineties in addition to being highly adopted by the software development industry. In the last 15 years, an excessive number of research studies have been conducted on agile methods, a great number of notable methods have been proposed and various surveys have been presented by many researchers. In this study, the authors intend to conduct a literature survey study of the surveys of the different agile methodologies ranging from January 2000 to December 2015 using an intuitive research methodology called "Compare and Review" (CR). Furthermore, these survey papers were classified into four major categories according to their area of study. Additionally, the newly proposed agile methodologies that have not been addressed yet in any other literature review were reviewed and compared in terms of where the changes that they proposed lay on the SDLC.

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“…Xie et al [12] describe a preliminary systematic review on empirical studies of the use of agile methods in embedded software development. They describe relevant characteristics of embedded software development such as hardware dependence or specific development environments.…”

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Scrum for cyber-physical systems: a process proposal

Wagner

2014

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering

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Agile development processes and especially Scrum are changing the state of the practice in software development. Many companies in the classical IT sector have adopted them to successfully tackle various challenges from the rapidly changing environments and increasingly complex software systems. Companies developing software for embedded or cyber-physical systems, however, are still hesitant to adopt such processes. Despite successful applications of Scrum and other agile methods for cyber-physical systems, there is still no complete process that maps their specific challenges to practices in Scrum. We propose to fill this gap by treating all design artefacts in such a development in the same way: In software development, the final design is already the product, in hardware and mechanics it is the starting point of production. We sketch the Scrum extension Scrum CPS by showing how Scrum could be used to develop all design artefacts for a cyber physical system. Hardware and mechanical parts that might not be available yet are simulated. With this approach, we can directly and iteratively build the final software and produce detailed models for the hardware and mechanics production in parallel. We plan to further detail Scrum CPS and apply it first in a series of student projects to gather more experience before testing it in an industrial case study.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, RCoSE 2014 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering. ACM, 201

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Empirical studies of embedded software development using agile methods

Cited by 9 publications

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Agile practices in practice

Agile practices in practice

Agile Software Development Methodologies: Survey of Surveys

Scrum for cyber-physical systems: a process proposal

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