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How Can Agile and Documentation-Driven Methods be Meshed in Practice?

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2014)

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Agile methods are becoming increasingly popular in software development; even by organizations complying with quality standards. The literature reports on scattered examples of organizations that have succeeded in meshing agile and documentation-driven methods. However, due to a lack of empirical research, it is not well understood how to implement a meshed software development practice. To increase the understanding of how to do this, this paper presents two case studies of the development of safety-critical software. The first case study presents challenges of adopting quality assurance in an agile software practice. The second case study shows how agile practices are adopted in a documentation-driven practice compliant with the US Food and Drug Administration standard. Based on a framework that identifies nine practice areas in which the methods differ, the challenges of and possibilities in implementing a meshed software development practice is presented.

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    Lise Tordrup Heeager

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    Michele Marchesi

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Heeager, L.T. (2014). How Can Agile and Documentation-Driven Methods be Meshed in Practice?. In: Cantone, G., Marchesi, M. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 179. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06862-6_5

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