Agile Development of Critical Software – Can It be Justified?

Janusz Górski, Katarzyna Łukasiewicz

2012

Abstract

The paper introduces the problem of application of agile practices in critical software development projects. It summarizes the present state of research and identifies the need for having a ready-to-use model of being agile while still meeting the required assurance levels which could be particularly useful for small and medium sized safety-critical software companies. Then the objective and scope of a research aiming at delivering such a model is presented together with a case study description which is a step of this research project. The case study will investigate how software engineers perceive risks associated with introduction of agile practices and collect their ideas on how these risks could be mitigated.

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Górski J. and Łukasiewicz K. (2012). Agile Development of Critical Software – Can It be Justified? . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6, pages 134-139. DOI: 10.5220/0003984101340139


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@conference{enase12,
author={Janusz Górski and Katarzyna Łukasiewicz},
title={Agile Development of Critical Software – Can It be Justified?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2012},
pages={134-139},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003984101340139},
isbn={978-989-8565-13-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Agile Development of Critical Software – Can It be Justified?
SN - 978-989-8565-13-6
AU - Górski J.
AU - Łukasiewicz K.
PY - 2012
SP - 134
EP - 139
DO - 10.5220/0003984101340139