Architectural design and documentation: Waste in agile development?

Author

Prause, Christian R. ; Durdik, Zoya

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

2-3 June 2012

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

134

Abstract

There is a problem with documentation and architectural design in agile projects. This is the result of interviews we have conducted with 37 software engineering experts from industry and academia. In our paper, we analyze the interview results and the origins of the revealed issues. We propose ways to integrate software design methodologies into agile development, and reputation mechanism to solve documentation problems. The contributions of this paper are (i) an investigation of expert opinions on design and documentation problems, (ii) an analysis of problem origins, and (iii) proposals for future improvements of agile processes.

Keywords

integrated software; project management; software architecture; software prototyping; system documentation; agile project development; architectural design; documentation; expert opinion; integrated software design methodology; software engineering; Documentation; Industries; Interviews; Programming; Software engineering; Software quality; agile development; documentation; reputation; software design; software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software and System Process (ICSSP), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2351-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2350-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225956

Filename

6225956