Challenges of Aligning Requirements Engineering and System Testing in Large-Scale Agile: A Multiple Case Study
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Date
2017
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IEEE
Abstract
As agile methods become more pervasive, agile
practices are applied to more large-scale systems with a scope
that goes beyond pure software. The expansion of agile in
these contexts provides benefits, but creates new challenges.
Widespread use of agile has changed the way we must think
about practices both in Requirements Engineering (RE) and in
System Testing (ST). Our experience shows that many challenges
in the application of large-scale agile development relate to either
RE or ST, and in particular to the alignment between these areas.
In this paper we present large-scale agile-related challenges from
a multiple case study which relate to REST alignment. We map
our challenges to an existing framework for REST alignment,
and make an initial attempt to suggest agile RE practices from
the literature which may alleviate these challenges. Our results
show that the interviewed companies need to first adopt more
agile RE practices to enhance REST alignment and then leverage
agile testing. Future work will look more towards evaluating these
best practices.
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Requirements engineering, System testing alignment, Large-scale agile system development
Citation
Neto, F. G. D. O., Horkoff, J., Knauss, E., Kasauli, R., & Liebel, G. (2017, September). Challenges of aligning requirements engineering and system testing in large-scale agile: A multiple case study. In 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) (pp. 315-322). IEEE. DOI 10.1109/REW.2017.33