Quality Assurance in Agile Methodology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783668746084)

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Computer Science - Software, grade: 3.5, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology (Dubai Campus), course: Independent Study, language: English, abstract: Quality Assurance activities, in software development, are the backbone of any software development. Quality Assurance activities are not only responsible of product quality, but also for process development quality. In conventional software development Quality Assurance is looked after by a separate team. As the trends of software development moved towards Agile development, Quality Assurance activities also got changed. In Agile development developers perform most of the activities such as close collaboration among developer team; onsite customer and Test Developers. Test Driven Development is the approaches in agile development to achieve better product quality. In this study I highlighted the importance of Quality Assurance in different Agile methodologies. Mindset of Agile development always revolves around product quality but there is much work to be done to impart quality of process in agile development to get it standardized and more organized product. Quality Assurance activities remain centric and focused to testing. In this study I have compared different Agile methodologies and also highlighted the factors of Quality Assurance in each Agile method which can be improve overall software development of any product using Agile method. I proposed to add an extra layer of Quality Assurance in Agile projects. Purpose of inserting an extra layer, is to use the knowledge of Quality Assurance experts to achieve quality product in development process which will results in higher level of product quality.

Author: Syed Hassan Shah
ISBN-10: 3668746087
ISBN-13: 9783668746084
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2018
Pages: 40
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.10d