Agile Technologies in Open Source Development

Agile Technologies in Open Source Development

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 388

ISBN13: 9781599046815|ISBN10: 1599046814|EISBN13: 9781599046839|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923860

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-681-5

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The analysis of commonalities and differences between agile technology and open source software development is needed to understand how advancement approaches have evolved and whether they produce concrete benefits in terms of software quality and customer satisfaction.

Agile Technologies in Open Source Development explores the overlap between open source and agile technologies, providing valuable strategies for advancement in software. This innovative publication provides a valuable resource to assist project managers, engineers, and developers interested in experimenting with new approaches in software expansion.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Chapters

Comparing Agile and Open Source Development

Chapter 1

Historical Evolution of the Agile and Open Source Movements (pages 1-22)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Agile Methods (AMs) are very recent but many of their basic principles are rather old, inherited from the lean production pioneered in the ‘60s at Toyota for the production of cars. Moreover, many practices on which AMs are based...

Chapter 2

The Agile Manifesto and Open Source Software (pages 23-29)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

The four main statements shared by all AMs are listed in the so-called Agile Manifesto: 1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools 2. Working software over comprehensive documentation 3. Customer collaboration over...

Chapter 3

Values and Principles Practices in Agile and Open Source Development (pages 30-40)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Values are ideals that that a group of people embrace. They can be positive or negative, for example empowerment or control. These values are implicit in the personality or culture of a company. Values are often emotive; they...

Chapter 4

Models of Organization (pages 41-50)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

The essence of XP, but in general of AMs, is making the customer a part of the team who works very closely with the developers, ideally communicating on a daily basis. However, this is not always feasible: this is due to a number of...

Chapter 5

Coordination in Agile and Open Source (pages 51-74)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Although the situation in the software industry is improved in the last years, the percentage of software project cancelled 18%, or challenged (late, over budget, and with less than the required features) 53% is still high1....

Chapter 6

Other Agile Methods (pages 75-89)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

In the early ‘90s, the IBM Consulting Group hired Alistair Cockburn to build a methodology for object-oriented development. Cockburn investigated a large number of software projects and asked to each team to identify the main reasons...

Agile Software Practices for Open Source Development

Chapter 7

Testing (pages 91-123)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Software testing is the process that controls the quality of software (Myers, 1979). Software testing is comprised in any development process and every method of development applies practices for software testing (Burnstein, 2003;...

Chapter 8

Code Ownership (pages 124-132)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

In many AMs, such as XP, the source code does not belong to the developer that wrote it. The common practice is that all the code belongs to the whole team; therefore every member can modify it. Collective Code Ownership encourages...

Chapter 9

Design Approaches (pages 133-143)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

In this chapter we compare agile and OS development in terms of the adoption of design practices. We review the practices of AMs to identify the agile approaches to the design and we inspect the code of a set of open source projects...

Chapter 10

Case Studies (pages 144-155)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

AMs have been developed considering mainly environments that are limited such as companies. For instance, XP defines practices such as 40-hours per week and pair programming that make sense only inside companies. However, the basic...

Empirical Evaluations

Chapter 11

A Framework for Collecting Experiences (pages 157-188)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

An informed introduction to AMs requires the ability to determine whether and when AMs are better than traditional software development methodologies. The risk is that AMs are considered just like another tool. Altogether to accredit...

Chapter 12

Improving Agile Methods (pages 189-231)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Apart from personal experience, anecdotal evidence and demonstrations are still the most prevalent and diffused methods on which software engineers have to base their knowledge and decisions. Although – by searching on line databases...

Chapter 13

Effort Estimation (pages 232-255)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

As in more traditional development processes also in agile and iterative methodologies, estimation of development effort without imposing overhead on the project and the development team is of paramount importance. This analysis...

Chapter 14

Discontinous use of Pair Programming (pages 256-267)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Pair Programming (PP) has usually considered non effective for distributed teams, not working most of the time together (Williams et al., 2000; Baheti et al., 2002). In this chapter we discuss the effectiveness of PP at transferring...

Chapter 15

Requirements Management (pages 268-286)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Existing literature (Boehm, 1981; Brooks, 1987; Cook, 2002) and empirical studies (Basili & Perricone, 1984; Emam & Madhavji, 1995; Marshall & Rossman, 1989) emphasize the importance of the Requirement Engineering (RE) activities as...

Chapter 16

Project Management (pages 287-300)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Surveys covering over 8000 projects indicate that the major sources of software project failure lie less with shortfalls in formal methods skills and more with shortfalls in skills to deal with stakeholder value propositions...

Industrial Adoption and Tools for Agile Development

Chapter 17

Open Source Assessment Methodologies (pages 302-310)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

The evaluation of software is a critical task for corporations that are planning to use OSS components. The amount of OSS available is vast and often its quality is not appropriate to adoption for real business processes. Therefore...

Chapter 18

Adoption of Open Source Processes in Large Enterprises (pages 311-333)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

This chapter summarizes the results of a questionnaire submitted to 50 companies and focusing on their usage of OSS. The people interviewed are project managers.

Chapter 19

Trust Elements in Open Source (pages 334-342)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

The quality of a software development process is based on a large spectrum of various elements that must be identified and assessed. The majority of elements can be measured quantitatively and possibly using an automatic process....

Chapter 20

Overview of Open Source Tools for Agile Development (pages 343-363)

Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

Tools support is extremely important in Agile development. As described in the previous chapters, the Agile development is based on the identification and the subsequent reduction of activities that do not provide value to the...

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