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November 2009 Calendar

CS Masters' Thesis Defense

Title: Analysis of Software Quality and Software Prductivity when Transitioning from Traditional Methodology to Agile Methodology in Software Depvelopment
Speaker: PADHMAVATHY NEELAMEGAN
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Time: 12:45 p.m.
Location: GMCS 405
Thesis advisor: Dr Joseph Lewis

Abstract:
This research is to analyze the impacts on Software Productivity and Quality when transitioning from an Evolutionary life-cycle model to a Scrum model in the software development process. Software Productivity and Quality are two important factors that influence a software technology company’s ability to increase their return on investment. New software development methodologies keep arising to make the software development process more efficient in terms of Software Quality and Productivity. The technology companies that follow a conventional process like the Evolutionary life-cycle model have started showing interest in implementing a change to improve these factors. An Evolutionary Software Development process is traditionally used in many companies but currently Agile Software Development is quickly becoming one of the popular methodologies. This thesis presents the results of a study and analysis of a software process transition from an Evolutionary life-cycle model to an Agile (Scrum) model. Two successive releases of a software product suite of identical size by the same development team in a technology company were studied for this research. Results of the study show that the software product developed by following the Scrum model yielded higher Software Productivity and had better Software Quality when compared to the software product developed under the Evolutionary life-cycle model.
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