Agile methods for embedded systems development - a literature review and a mapping study

Kaisti, Matti; Rantala, Ville; Mujunen, Tapio; Hyrynsalmi, Sami; Könnölä, Kaisa; Mäkilä, Tuomas; Lehtonen, Teijo

doi:10.1186/1687-3963-2013-15

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“…In the literature review [21], there were 18 case studies or experience reports. From these, six utilized XP as their main method, three utilized both Scrum and XP, two utilized Scrum, one utilized the practice of testdriven development, and one utilized hardware-software co-design.…”

Section: Embedded System Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many of these cases tailoring [22][23][24] or adaptation [25,26] of agile methods was seen essential, and some decided to utilize only some specific agile practices [27,28]. Also it was noted that agile methods should not be followed dogmatically [29,30] or at least the practices should be carefully selected [31] or the methods should be concentrated on the embedded domain-specific requirements [21,32].…”

Section: Embedded System Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Can embedded space system development benefit from agile practices?

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We study in this work piloting agile practices in embedded space system development projects. The case involves three companies acting as last or next to last subcontractors in a space project. Initial interviews and a subsequent survey revealed challenges that embedded space system development poses to the agile software development. These include high specialization and emphasis on individual performance, formal customer interface requiring extensive documentation, and the management of several simultaneous projects. Iterative way of working is characteristic to agile systems development, but novel to the examined project teams. We observed that it enhanced team collaboration through planning and reviewing the work together and in transferring emphasis from the individuals to the team. Resource allocation between projects was taken properly into account when planning the iteration, or when cancelling an iteration for the project. Furthermore, the customer interface was tackled better by utilizing backlogs. According to the end survey and interviews, the main benefits of the agile practices were better communication and knowledge sharing inside the team, enhanced teamwork, and setting the pace for the sometimes slowly proceeding embedded space system development. Also documentation, while it barely changed, was seen more adequate in two of the cases. Overall, the teams felt that they were given a better possibility to affect their ways of working. The case study results show that agile practices can be applied to embedded space system development with notable benefits.

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Section: Embedded System Developmentmentioning

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Can embedded space system development benefit from agile practices?

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“…A common approach to perform embedded software testing is to use virtual versions of the hardware such as mocks [18] and simulations and emulations. However, our experiments demonstrate that this is not the same as testing on the true hardware where live conditions such as heat, movement and other environmental impacts must be taken into consideration, to ensure reliability.…”

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“…For instance, Kaisti et al [18] surveyed over 28 papers on the application of agile methods to embedded-systems and discovered that failures and bad experiences have not been reported in any of the papers. Srinivasan et al [19] concluded that the absence of failures with respect to adoption of agile methods is the startling gap in published literature on the subject.…”

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Development of a Wireless Environmental Data Acquisition Prototype Adopting Agile Practices: An Experience Report

Celicourt¹,

Sam²,

Piasecki³

2016

JSEA

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The traditional software development model commonly named "waterfall" is unable to cope with the increasing functionality and complexity of modern embedded systems. In addition, it is unable to support the ability for businesses to quickly respond to new market opportunities due to changing requirements. As a response, the software development community developed the Agile Methodologies (e.g., extreme Programming, Scrum) which were also adopted by the Embedded System community. However, failures and bad experiences in applying Agile Methodologies to the development of embedded systems have not been reported in the literature. Therefore, this paper contributes a detailed account of our first-time experiences adopting an agile approach in the prototype development of a wireless environment data acquisition system in an academic environment. We successfully applied a subset of the extreme Programming (XP) methodology to our software development using the Python programming language, an experience that demonstrated its benefits in shaping the design of the software and also increasing productivity. We used an incremental development approach for the hardware components and adopted a "cumulative testing" approach. For the overall development process management, however, we concluded that the Promise/Commitment-Based Project Management (PB-PM/CBPM) was better suited. We discovered that software and hardware components of embedded systems are best developed in parallel or near-parallel. We learned that software components that pass automated tests may not survive in the tests against the hardware. Throughout this rapid prototyping effort, factors like team size and our availability as graduate students were major obstacles to fully apply the XP methodology.

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“…While research on agile software development is accumulating and maturing, and has provided a basis for conducting systematic literature reviews ( Dybå and Dingsøyr, 2008;Jalali and Wohlin, 2012;Senapathi and Srinivasan, 2013;Kaisti et al, 2013 ), the area of large-scale agile development has not yet been studied through secondary studies. In this paper we start filling in this gap by presenting a systematic literature review of large-scale agile transformations.…”

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Challenges and Success Factors for Large-scale Agile Transformations

Paasivaara

Lassenius

2016

Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop Proceedings of XP2016

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a b s t r a c tAgile methods have become an appealing alternative for companies striving to improve their performance, but the methods were originally designed for small and individual teams. This creates unique challenges when introducing agile at scale, when development teams must synchronize their activities, and there might be a need to interface with other organizational units. In this paper we present a systematic literature review on how agile methods and lean software development has been adopted at scale, focusing on reported challenges and success factors in the transformation. We conducted a systematic literature review of industrial large-scale agile transformations. Our keyword search found 1875 papers. We included 52 publications describing 42 industrial cases presenting the process of taking large-scale agile development into use. Almost 90% of the included papers were experience reports, indicating a lack of sound academic research on the topic. We identified 35 reported challenges grouped into nine categories, and 29 success factors, grouped into eleven categories. The most salient success factor categories were management support, choosing and customizing the agile model, training and coaching, and mindset and alignment.

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Agile methods for embedded systems development - a literature review and a mapping study

Cited by 47 publications

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Can embedded space system development benefit from agile practices?

Can embedded space system development benefit from agile practices?

Development of a Wireless Environmental Data Acquisition Prototype Adopting Agile Practices: An Experience Report

Challenges and Success Factors for Large-scale Agile Transformations

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