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Empirical process (process control model)
About: Empirical process (process control model) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5667 publications have been published within this topic receiving 146248 citations.
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TL;DR: An outline is given of the process steps involved in the spiral model, an evolving risk-driven approach that provides a framework for guiding the software process and its application to a software project is shown.
Abstract: A short description is given of software process models and the issues they address. An outline is given of the process steps involved in the spiral model, an evolving risk-driven approach that provides a framework for guiding the software process, and its application to a software project is shown. A summary is given of the primary advantages and implications involved in using the spiral model and the primary difficulties in using it at its current incomplete level of elaboration. >
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27 Sep 2011TL;DR: The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to experimentation and experimental evaluation with a focus on software engineering, and to provide guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering.
Abstract: The purpose of Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is to introduce students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners to experimentation and experimental evaluation with a focus on software engineering. The objective is, in particular, to provide guidelines for performing experiments evaluating methods, techniques and tools in software engineering. The introduction is provided through a process perspective. The focus is on the steps that we go through to perform experiments and quasi-experiments. The process also includes other types of empirical studies. The motivation for the book emerged from the need for support we experienced when turning our software engineering research more experimental. Several books are available which either treat the subject in very general terms or focus on some specific part of experimentation; most focus on the statistical methods in experimentation. These are important, but there were few books elaborating on experimentation from a process perspective, none addressing experimentation in software engineering in particular. The scope of Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is primarily experiments in software engineering as a means for evaluating methods, techniques and tools. The book provides some information regarding empirical studies in general, including both case studies and surveys. The intention is to provide a brief understanding of these strategies and in particular to relate them to experimentation. Experimentation in Software Engineering: An Introduction is suitable for use as a textbook or a secondary text for graduate courses, and for researchers and practitioners interested in an empirical approach to software engineering. (Less)
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TL;DR: A systematic review of empirical studies of agile software development up to and including 2005 was conducted and provides a map of findings, according to topic, that can be compared for relevance to their own settings and situations.
Abstract: Agile software development represents a major departure from traditional, plan-based approaches to software engineering. A systematic review of empirical studies of agile software development up to and including 2005 was conducted. The search strategy identified 1996 studies, of which 36 were identified as empirical studies. The studies were grouped into four themes: introduction and adoption, human and social factors, perceptions on agile methods, and comparative studies. The review investigates what is currently known about the benefits and limitations of, and the strength of evidence for, agile methods. Implications for research and practice are presented. The main implication for research is a need for more and better empirical studies of agile software development within a common research agenda. For the industrial readership, the review provides a map of findings, according to topic, that can be compared for relevance to their own settings and situations.
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11 Oct 2001
TL;DR: This book describes building systems using the deceptively simple process, Scrum, a new approach to systems development projects that cuts through the ocmplexity and ambiguity of complex, emergent requiremetns and unstable technology to iteratively and quickly produce quality software.
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Agile development methods are key to the future of flexible software systems. Scrum is one of the vangards of the new way to buy and manage software development when business conditions are changing. This book distills both the theory and practive and is essential reading for anyone who needs to cope with software in a volatile world.
Martin Fowler, industry consultant and CTO, ThoughtWorks
Most executives today are not happy with their organization's ability to deliver systems at reasonable cost and timeframes. Yet, if pressed, they will admit that they don't think their software developers are not competent. If it's not the engineers, then what is it that prevents fast development at reasonable cost? Scrum gives the answer to the question and the solution to the problem.
Alan Buffington, industry consultant, former Present, Fidelity Systems Company
Arguably the most important book about managing technology and systems development efforts, this book describes building systems using the deceptively simple process, Scrum. Readers will come to understand a new approach to systems development projects that cuts through the ocmplexity and ambiguity of complex, emergent requiremetns and unstable technology to iteratively and quickly produce quality software.
BENEFITS Learn how to immediately start producing software incrementally regardless of existing engineering practices or methodologies
Learn how to simplify the implementation of Agile processes
Learn how to simplify XP implementation through a Scrum wrapper
Learn why Agile processes work and how to manage them
Understand the theoretical underpinnings of Agile processes
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