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Guiding the Functional Change Decisions in Agile Project: An Empirical Evaluation

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Software Technologies (ICSOFT 2018)

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Abstract

Agile methods are becoming increasingly used in software industry as a response to the challenges of managing the frequent changes during the software life-cycle. However, an important number of agile projects yield unsatisfactory results and end up with failure. This is due mainly to a lack of structured change control process. A well-defined change control process gives software industry a significant competitive advantage. This paper describes an evaluation of functional changes affecting either an ongoing sprint or an implemented sprint. This evaluation can greatly assist the development teams in making appropriate decisions. We quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate 15 software development projects using agile (scrum) method. We also investigate the use of COSMIC Functional Size Measurement method for a rapid quantification and evaluation of a change request.

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  1. Mir@cl Laboratory, ISIMS, University of Sfax, BP 242, 3021, Sfax, Tunisia

    Asma Sellami, Nour Borchani & Nadia Bouassida

  2. Mir@cl Laboratory, FSEGS, University of Sfax, BP 1088, 3018, Sfax, Tunisia

    Mariem Haoues

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    Leszek A. Maciaszek

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Entry Corpus: These verbs express Entry data-movements: Assign, change, choose, click, create, edit, give, input, modify, provide, re-enter, select, submit, type, update.

Exit Corpus: These verbs express eXit data-movements: display, edit, list, output, post, present, print, return, send, Show update, view.

Read Corpus: These verbs express read data-movements: find, get, obtain, post, read, recognize retrieve, Validate, Verify.

Write Corpus: These verbs express write data-movements: add, archive, change, create, define, delete, edit, insert, record, register, remove, save, store, Update.

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Sellami, A., Haoues, M., Borchani, N., Bouassida, N. (2019). Guiding the Functional Change Decisions in Agile Project: An Empirical Evaluation. In: van Sinderen, M., Maciaszek, L. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1077. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29157-0_15

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