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SAMSEF: An Agile Software Maintenance Leveraging Scrum Framework for Improved Efficiency and Effectiveness

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Agile methodologies have gained widespread recognition for their ability to produce high-quality software systems. Given that over half of all job, roles are associated with maintenance activities throughout a program system’s entire lifecycle, researchers and engineers are actively exploring utilizing agile methods to ensure the continued robustness of the software. The agile software development lifecycle lacks a dedicated maintenance plan, prompting the need for a set of agile maintenance principles derived from both theoretical foundations and practical experience. These established standards encompass maintenance planning, customer involvement, incremental maintenance execution, documentation updates at each stage, and thorough testing of maintenance tasks. This study proposes an efficient framework named SAMSEF-based. It is a hybrid of Model-Based Software Engineering and Agile methodology, successfully used in a pilot study on health technology systems. It can improve project progression and system design documentation, enhancing agile capabilities.

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This work is funded by FCT/MEC through national funds and co-funded by the FEDER – PT2020 partnership agreement under the project UIDB/50008/2020. This article is based upon work from COST Action CA21118 - Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). More information on www.cost.eu.

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, Superior University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Ali

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    Sehrish Munawar Cheema

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan

    Ammerha Naz

  4. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Águeda, Universidade de Aveiro, Águeda, Portugal

    Ivan Miguel Pires

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Ali, M., Cheema, S.M., Naz, A., Pires, I.M. (2024). SAMSEF: An Agile Software Maintenance Leveraging Scrum Framework for Improved Efficiency and Effectiveness. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Poniszewska-Marańda, A. (eds) Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60227-6_11

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