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Integrating Agile Practices into Architectural Assumption Management: An Industrial Survey

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EASE '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

Pages 156 - 165

https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319027

Published: 15 April 2019 Publication History

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Although managing architectural assumptions can benefit software development in several aspects (e.g., reducing architectural misunderstanding and mismatch), the effort required is a key obstacle towards employing architectural assumption management in practice. One potential solution is to apply agile practices in order to reduce this effort. To this end, we conducted a survey with 91 practitioners to investigate the possibility of integrating agile practices into architectural assumption management in industrial practice. The results offer an overview of which agile practices can be integrated in architectural assumption management and how. Six agile practices were selected by more than half of the subjects: "Backlog", "Iterative and Incremental Development", "Refactoring", "Continuous Integration", "Effective Communication", and "Just Enough Work". Twelve agile practices were further elaborated by the subjects regarding how they can be used in architectural assumption management. Based on the survey results, we developed a classification of agile practices for agile architectural assumption management, which can act as a reference for researchers and practitioners to employ certain agile practices in architectural assumption management.

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Neumann M(2022)The Integrated List of Agile Practices - A Tertiary StudyLean and Agile Software Development10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_2(19-37)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_2
Kleebaum APaech BJohanssen JBruegge B(2021)Continuous Rationale Visualization2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT52517.2021.00013(33-43)Online publication date: Sep-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT52517.2021.00013

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Integrating Agile Practices into Architectural Assumption Management: An Industrial Survey
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software

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EASE '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

April 2019

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ISBN:9781450371452

DOI:10.1145/3319008

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EASE '19: Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

April 15 - 17, 2019

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Neumann M(2022)The Integrated List of Agile Practices - A Tertiary StudyLean and Agile Software Development10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_2(19-37)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_2
Kleebaum APaech BJohanssen JBruegge B(2021)Continuous Rationale Visualization2021 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT52517.2021.00013(33-43)Online publication date: Sep-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT52517.2021.00013

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