TY - GEN
T1 - The challenge of improving software quality
T2 - 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009
AU - Kong, Sue
AU - Kendall, Julie E.
AU - Kendall, Kenneth E.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We observe that systems developers who have had experience with agile development projects often express their opinion that agile methodologies are superior to plan-driven methodologies. In order to collect empirical evidence to support or discount this belief, we conducted a survey among software developers about software quality and development practices. Our study identified eight quality goals from the software quality literature. We then asked the participants to identify which of eight practices contributes the most towards that quality goal. Half of the practices were agile practices; half were plandriven practices. We found that, for each and every quality goal, the participants as a whole chose one of the agile practices as a best practice enabling them to reach each quality goal. While this study does not conclude that agile methods are always the best approach, it does reveal that agile practices are being noticed and appreciated by many system developers.
AB - We observe that systems developers who have had experience with agile development projects often express their opinion that agile methodologies are superior to plan-driven methodologies. In order to collect empirical evidence to support or discount this belief, we conducted a survey among software developers about software quality and development practices. Our study identified eight quality goals from the software quality literature. We then asked the participants to identify which of eight practices contributes the most towards that quality goal. Half of the practices were agile practices; half were plandriven practices. We found that, for each and every quality goal, the participants as a whole chose one of the agile practices as a best practice enabling them to reach each quality goal. While this study does not conclude that agile methods are always the best approach, it does reveal that agile practices are being noticed and appreciated by many system developers.
KW - Agile Practices
KW - Agile Software Development
KW - Software Coding Quality
KW - Software Design Quality
KW - Software Quality
KW - Survey of Software Developers
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870161287
SN - 9781615675814
T3 - 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009
SP - 1027
EP - 1038
BT - 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009
Y2 - 6 August 2009 through 9 August 2009
ER -