An empirical investigation of the factors affecting agile usage

Senapathi, Mali; Srinivasan, Ananth

doi:10.1145/2601248.2601253

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“…RQ2: Perceived benefits and challenges of using BDD: We use the following factors from the Agile Usage Model (AUM) [44], [6], [4] to explain the perceived importance, overall benefits and challenges of BDD. In the AUM, the following terms are used:…”

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“…• Agile Mindset: A mindset that perceives challenges as learning opportunities, building on optimism to grow over time, with effort in place [4]. • Agile Coach: An individual with both technical and domain knowledge who can point an agile team in right directions without imposing matters [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…• Agile Coach: An individual with both technical and domain knowledge who can point an agile team in right directions without imposing matters [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Like many other agile practices, the adoption and continued use of BDD is affected by organizational, people, process and technical factors, discussed in [4], [5], [6], [7]. As the technique enters its second decade of use, a considerable body of experience has been built up by practitioners, and lessons have been learnt about both the strengths and the challenges involved in its practical application on real projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…RELATED WORK Senpathi et al used the Agile Usage Model to identify the factors that affect the effective use of agile methods after they have been adopted by organizations, and the impact of the adoption [4]. In other work, Vijaysarathy et al investigated reasons why people and organizations adopt and use agile practices, and the benefits and challenges that face development teams at early stages of adoption of particular agile practices [5].…”

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Maintaining behaviour driven development specifications: Challenges and opportunities

Binamungu

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2018

2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

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Abstract-In Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) the behaviour of a software system is specified as a set of example interactions with the system using a "Given-WhenThen" structure. These examples are expressed in high level domain-specific terms, and are executable. They thus act both as a specification of the requirements and as tests that can verify whether the current system implementation provides the desired behaviour or not. This approach has many advantages but also presents some problems. When the number of examples grows, BDD specifications can become costly to maintain and extend. Some teams find that parts of the system are effectively frozen due to the challenges of finding and modifying the examples associated with them. We surveyed 75 BDD practitioners from 26 countries to understand the extent of BDD use, its benefits and challenges, and specifically the challenges of maintaining BDD specifications in practice. We found that BDD is in active use in industry, and that the use of domain specific terms, improving communication among stakeholders, the executable nature of BDD specifications, and facilitating comprehension of code intentions are the main benefits of BDD. The results also showed that BDD specifications suffer the same maintenance challenges found in automated test suites generally. We mapped the survey results to the literature, and propose 10 research opportunities in this area.

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Section: Discussion and Threats To Validitymentioning

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“…• Agile Coach: An individual with both technical and domain knowledge who can point an agile team in right directions without imposing matters [4].…”

Section: Discussion and Threats To Validitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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