Paper accepted 1st International Workshop on Quality Requirements in Agile Projects (QuaRAP 2018)

How Practitioners Manage Quality Requirements in Rapid Software Development: A Survey

Lidia López, Jari Partanen, Pilar Rodríguez, Silverio Martínez-Fernández

Abstract. Software quality is an essential competitive factor for the success of software companies today. Increasing software quality levels of software products and services requires an adequate integration of quality requirements (QRs) in the software life-cycle, which is still scarcely supported in current rapid software development (RSD) approaches. One of the goals of the Q-Rapids (Quality-aware Rapid Software Development) approach is to provide tool support to decision-makers for QRs management in RSD. As an initial step, we conducted a survey to explore how software development organizations using RSD manage QRs in their development process. The survey focuses on: (a) how data is gathered for assessing quality, (b) how QRs are managed, and (c) the considered QRs in their products. We received 30 answers, from these answers we can conclude that most of the companies gather data both automatically and manually for monitoring quality; QRs are managed together with functional requirements, sometimes or very often functionality gets priority over quality; and, the most reported QRs are reliability, performance, and security.

If you have experience developing in agile/rapid developments, you can help us answering the survey or helping us in its dissemination:

http://www.essi.upc.edu/~e-survey/index.php?sid=38773&lang=en

Co-located to 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2018).

Paper accepted at the CAiSE Forum 2018

Q-Rapids Tool Prototype: Supporting Decision-Makers in Managing Quality in Rapid Software Development

Lidia López, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Cristina Gómez, Michał Choraś, Rafał Kozik, Liliana Guzmán, Anna Maria Vollmer, Xavier Franch, Andreas Jedlitschka

Abstract. Software quality is an essential competitive factor for the success of software companies today. Increasing the software quality levels of software products and services requires an adequate integration of quality requirements (QRs) in the software life-cycle, which is still scarcely supported in current rapid software development (RSD) approaches. One of the goals of the Q-Rapids (Quality-aware Rapid Software Development) method is providing tool support to decision-makers for QR management in RSD. The Q-Rapids method is based on gathering data from several and heterogeneous sources, to be aggregated into quality-related strategic indicators (e.g., customer satisfaction, product quality) and presented to decision-makers using a highly informative dashboard. The current release of Q-Rapids Tool provides four sets of functionality: (1) data gathering from source tools (e.g. GitLab, Jira, SonarQube, and Jenkins), (2) aggregation of data into three levels of abstraction (metrics, product/process factors, and strategic indicators), (3) visualization of the aggregated data, and (4) navigation through the aggregated data. The tool  has been evaluated by four European companies that follow RSD processes.