Agile software testing in a large-scale project

Author

Talby, David ; Keren, Arie ; Hazzan, Orit ; Dubinsky, Yael

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem

Volume

23

Issue

4

fYear

2006

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

37

Abstract

Agile software development in general and Extreme Programming (XP) in particular, promote radical changes in how software development organizations traditionally work. We present and analyze new data from a real, large-scale agile project to develop a business-critical enterprise information system for the Israeli Air Force (IAF). Our results offer new evidence that agile testing practices actually work, dramatically improving development quality and productivity. We describe the organization´s successful practices and guidelines in four key areas: test design and activity execution, working with professional testers, planning, and defect management

Keywords

data analysis; management information systems; military computing; program testing; project management; software quality; Extreme Programming; IAF; Israeli Air Force; agile software development; agile software testing; business-critical enterprise information system; defect management; large-scale agile project; software development organizations; software quality; Game theory; Large-scale systems; Meeting planning; Programming; Project management; Quality assurance; Reflection; Software testing; Spine; System testing; debugging; measurement; process metrics; project management; project planning; software testing; test design; test management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2006.93

Filename

1657936