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Agile Testing: Introducing PRAT as a Metric of Testing Quality in Scrum

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Imrul KayesAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943371.1943384

Published: 05 May 2011 Publication History

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Scrum methodology has originated from agile software develop-ment as an elixir to software projects which are behind the sche-dule or which are highly likely to have a problematic development phase. Also unlike any other agile methodology, scrum is adaptive in nature. This paper presents a metric that focuses on measuring test quality in scrum. As product quality and process quality is closely correlated, improved test quality can ensure high quality deliverable product. Proposed metric measures test quality of each sprint/ iteration of scrum based upon some factor ratings which can be used to get a comprehensive test quality overview of testing process over longer periods.

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Obaid Barraood SMohd HBaharom FAlmogahed A(2023)Systematic Literature Review on Test Case Quality Characteristics and Metrics2023 3rd International Conference on Emerging Smart Technologies and Applications (eSmarTA)10.1109/eSmarTA59349.2023.10293544(01-08)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2023
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Garcia LOliveiraJr EMorandini M(2022)Tailoring the Scrum framework for software developmentInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106814146:COnline publication date: 1-Jun-2022
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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 2

March 2011

116 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1943371

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Obaid Barraood SMohd HBaharom FAlmogahed A(2023)Systematic Literature Review on Test Case Quality Characteristics and Metrics2023 3rd International Conference on Emerging Smart Technologies and Applications (eSmarTA)10.1109/eSmarTA59349.2023.10293544(01-08)Online publication date: 10-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/eSmarTA59349.2023.10293544
Garcia LOliveiraJr EMorandini M(2022)Tailoring the Scrum framework for software developmentInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106814146:COnline publication date: 1-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106814
Wadood KShahzad MIqbal M(2020)Employability Assessment of Agile Methods for Software Quality: An Empirical Case StudySystems, Software and Services Process Improvement10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_45(598-614)Online publication date: 10-Aug-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_45
Kayes IIslam SChakareski J(2015)The network of faultsInnovations in Systems and Software Engineering10.1007/s11334-015-0255-511:4(261-275)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2015
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