Requirements Engineering and Software Testing in Agile Methodologies

Coutinho, Jarbele Cássia da Silva; Andrade, Wilkerson L.; Machado, Patrícia D. L.

doi:10.1145/3350768.3352584

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“…Previous studies conducted systematic literature reviews on Agile RE issues (Coutinho et al, 2019;Curcio et al, 2018;Inayat et al, 2015). However, no studies have specifically done a systematic literature review within the public sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Agile methodologies, the emphasis lies on the operational software rather than the generated artifacts, posing a significant challenge for professionals in the field of RE. Generating and maintaining requirement documentation is often viewed as a bureaucratic practice within Agile approaches, hindering the agility of the process (Coutinho et al, 2019).…”

Section: Agile Requirements Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Barriers of Agile Requirements Engineering in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Tri Utami,

Raharjo,

Zharif Mustaqim

et al. 2024

IJIKM

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Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to summarize the challenges of Agile Requirements Engineering (Agile RE) in the public sector in republican and constitutional monarchy nations. Additionally, it offers recommendations to address these challenges. Background: Failure of IT projects in the public sector results in financial losses for the state and loss of public trust, often attributed to issues in requirements engineering such as prioritization of user needs and excessive scope of requirements. IT projects can have a higher success rate with Agile RE, but there are also drawbacks. Therefore, this study holds significance by presenting a thorough framework designed to pinpoint and overcome the challenges associated with Agile RE to increase the success rate of IT projects. Methodology: This study employs a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol in the field of software engineering or related domains, which consists of three main phases: planning the review, conducting the review with a snowballing approach, and reporting the review. Furthermore, the authors perform open coding to categorize challenges based on the Agile methodologies adoption factor model and axial coding to map potential solutions. Contribution: The authors assert that this research enriches the existing literature on Agile RE, specifically within the public sector context, by mapping out challenges and possible solutions that contribute to creating a foundation for future studies to conduct a more in-depth analysis of Agile adoption in the public sector. Furthermore, it compares the barriers of Agile RE in the public sector with the general context, leading to the discovery of new theories specifically for this field. Findings: Most challenges related to Agile RE in the public sector are found in the people and process aspects. Project and organizational-related are subsequent aspects. Therefore, handling people and processes proficiently is imperative within Agile RE to prevent project failure. Recommendations for Practitioners: Our findings offer a comprehensive view of Agile RE in the public sector in republican and constitutional monarchy nations. This study maps the challenges encountered by the public sector and provides potential solutions. The authors encourage practitioners to consider our findings as a foundation for adopting Agile methodology in the public sector. Furthermore, this study can assist practitioners in identifying existing barriers related to Agile RE, pinpointing elements that contribute to overcoming those challenges, and developing strategies based on the specific needs of the organizations. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers have the potential to expand the scope of this study by conducting research in other countries, especially African countries, as this study has not yet encompassed this geographic region. Additionally, they can strengthen the evidence linking Agile RE challenges to the risk of Agile project failure by performing empirical validation in a specific country. Impact on Society: This research conducts a comprehensive exploration of Agile RE within the public sector, serving as a foundation for the successful adoption of Agile methodology by overcoming obstacles related to Agile RE. This study highlights the importance of managing people, processes, projects, and organizational elements to increase the success of Agile adoption in the public sector. Future Research: In the future, researchers should work towards resolving the limitations identified in this study. This study has not provided a clear prioritization of challenges and solutions according to their significance. Therefore, future researchers can perform a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process (F-AHP) to prioritize the proposed solutions.

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Section: Agile Requirements Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Barriers of Agile Requirements Engineering in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Tri Utami,

Raharjo,

Zharif Mustaqim

et al. 2024

IJIKM

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“…Tests can be categorized, according to [31]: (i) object of the test (unit, integration and system); and (ii) test objective (acceptance, installation, alpha, beta, regression, performance, security, load, recovery, bottom-out, interface, configuration, usability, and interaction). In the agile context, agile tests have shown their benefits [32], [33], being necessary that the software-testers are present from the collection of requirements [34] and maintain fluid communication, both formal and informal, with the programmers [35].…”

Section: Software Testing In Agile and Devops Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1612

Pando¹,

Dávila²

2023

Proceedings of ISP RAS

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DevOps is a philosophy and framework that allows software development and operations teams to work in a coordinated manner, with the purpose of developing and releasing software quickly and cheaply. However, the effectiveness and benefits of DevOps depend on several factors, as reported in the literature. In particular, several studies have been published on software test automation, which is a cornerstone for the continuous integration phase in DevOps, which needs to be identified and classified. This study consolidates and classifies the existing literature on automated tests in the DevOps context. For the study, a systematic mapping study was performed to identify and classify papers on automated testing in DevOps based on 8 research questions. In the query of 6 relevant databases, 3,312 were obtained; and then, after the selection process, 299 papers were selected as primary studies. Researchers maintain a continuing and growing interest in software testing in the DevOps context. Most of the research (71.2%) is carried out in the industry and is done on web applications and SOA. The most reported types of tests are unit and integration tests.

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“…Acceptance test in FitNesse and Gherkin notations are widely adopted according to (Park and Maurer, 2008;Coutinho et al, 2019). Thus, in this study we propose specific metrics to be used for these notations.…”

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Measuring Test Data Uniformity in Acceptance Tests for the FitNesse and Gherkin Notations

Longo¹,

Vilain²,

Silva³

2021

Journal of Computer Science

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This paper presents two metrics designed to measure the data uniformity of acceptance tests in FitNesse and Gherkin notations. The objective is to measure the data uniformity of acceptance tests in order to identify projects with lots of random and meaningless data. Random data in acceptance tests hinder communication between stakeholders and increase the volume of glue code. The main contribution of this paper is the implementation of the proposed metrics. This paper also evaluates the uniformity of test data from several FitNesse and Gherkin projects found on GitHub, as a means to verify if the metrics are applicable. First, the metrics were applied to 18 FitNesse project repositories and 18 Gherkin project repositories. The measurements taken from these repositories were used to present cases of irregular and uniform test data. Then, we have compared the notations from FitNesse and Gherkin in terms of projects and features. In terms of projects, no significant difference was observed, that is, FitNesse projects have a level of uniformity similar to Gherkin projects. However, in terms of features and test documents, there was a significant difference. The uniformity scores of FitNesse and Gherkin features are 0.16 and 0.26, respectively. These uniformity scores are very low, which means that test data for both notations are very irregular. Thus, we can infer that test data are more irregular in FitNesse features than in Gherkin features. The evaluation also shows that 28 of 36 projects (78%) did not reach the minimum recommended measure, i.e., 0.45 of test data uniformity. In general, we can observe that there are still many challenges in improving the quality of acceptance tests, especially in relation to the uniformity of test data.

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Requirements Engineering and Software Testing in Agile Methodologies

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Barriers of Agile Requirements Engineering in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

Barriers of Agile Requirements Engineering in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review

https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1612

Measuring Test Data Uniformity in Acceptance Tests for the FitNesse and Gherkin Notations

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