Abstract
Mobile software applications have to cope with a particular execution environment that includes limited resources, high autonomy requirements, market regulations, and many other constraints. To provide a software development process that responds to these challenges, several methodologies proposed the adoption of Agile practices; however, it is not clear how a software development process would help to solve all the issues present in the mobile domain. Moreover, the rapid evolution of the mobile environment questions several of the premises upon which the proposed methodologies were designed. In this paper, we present a review on Agile software development processes for mobile applications and their implementations, with the objective of knowing the contribution of Agile methods to address the needs of the mobile software in a real production environment. In addition, we aim to put up to date the discussion about what are the best practices that facilitate the creation of high quality software products in the current mobile domain.
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Corral, L., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (2013). Agile Software Development Processes for Mobile Systems: Accomplishment, Evidence and Evolution. In: Daniel, F., Papadopoulos, G.A., Thiran, P. (eds) Mobile Web Information Systems. MobiWIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8093. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40276-0_8
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