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An Investigation into Agile Methods in Embedded Systems Development

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012 (ICCSA 2012)

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Embedded systems are widely used in diverse areas, such as avionics, consumer electronics, and medical equipments, causing a considerable impact on modern society. Since these systems sometimes deal directly with human lives, and require a considerable level of quality, their development should be subject to a rigorous process. In another perspective, agile methods (or agile processes) have been adopted by the software industry as a lightweight, iterative, and collaborative approach for developing software systems. Although agile methods do not seem to be suitable to embedded systems, they have been successfully used for building such systems. However, there exists no detailed and analytical overview of the use of such methods in the embedded systems domain. The main objective of this paper is to present a detailed view of how agile methods have been used in the development of embedded systems, and to describe their benefits, challenges, and limitations. For this, we have applied Systematic Review, a technique for systematically exploring, organizing, summarizing, and assessing potentially all works conducted in a specific research area. As the main result, we have observed that agile methods have brought advantages to embedded systems development; however, more studies should be conducted. Furthermore, this work is also intended to contribute to the identification of important new research lines.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Caroline Oliveira Albuquerque & Pablo Oliveira Antonino

  2. Dept. of Computer Systems, University of São Paulo - USP, PO Box 668, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Elisa Yumi Nakagawa

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  3. Department of Cyber Security Science, Federal University of Technology, Gidan Kwano Campus, Minna, Nigeria

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  4. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Sao Francisco Xavier, 524, 50. andar, sala 5145-F, Maracana, 20.550-013, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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  6. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

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Albuquerque, C.O., Antonino, P.O., Nakagawa, E.Y. (2012). An Investigation into Agile Methods in Embedded Systems Development. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012. ICCSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31137-6_44

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