Agile software development has proven to be an effective alternative to the regimentation of waterfall based approaches. Recent research by Patel and Ramachandran [17] has led to the innovation of Acceptance Test Driven Story Cards (SoBA). Implemented using Extreme Programming, preliminary findings show SoBA retains essential Agile attributes like feedback, flow and universal responsibility for quality [3] whilst delivering improvements to estimation, communication, requirements gathering and testing.
Original SoBA theory was exploratory, and its validation was experimental systems development. Enterprise software on the other hand is more complex and architectural in its design. This paper suggests integration with architecture, project management and business analysis practices in order to expand SoBA’s potential and address criticisms of Agile methods and Extreme Programming; particularly instability of requirements, user conflicts and scalability.
Enterprise SoBA is untried. This paper proposes highlevel abstract concepts and integration, and these will be tested during the course of ongoing research.
Research paper is available from : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1689270
Author: Dr Chetan Patel
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