Software Engineering, 10th Edition

3 Agile software development

Objectives

The objective of this chapter is to introduce you to agile software development methods. When you have read the chapter, you will:

• understand the rationale for agile software development methods, the agile manifesto, and the differences between agile and plan-driven development;

• know about important agile development practices such as user stories, refactoring, pair programming and test-first development;

• understand the Scrum approach to agile project management;

• understand the issues of scaling agile development methods and combining agile approaches with plan-driven approaches in the development of large software systems.

Contents

1. 3.1 Agile methods

2. 3.2 Agile development techniques

3. 3.3 Agile project ...