Tesis y Tesistas 2020 - Postgrado - Fac. de Informática - UNLP

DOCTORADO EN
CIENCIAS INFORMÁTICAS
Dr. Noelia Soledad Pinto
e-mail
ns.pinto@gmail.com
Advisos
Dr. César J. Acuña
Codirector
Dr. Gustavo Héctor Rossi
Thesis defense date
November 19, 2020
SEDICI
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/109769
Framework for Quality
Assessment of Agile Processes
Keywords: Software Quality; Agile Approaches; Software Development Processes; SMEs
Motivation
Today, a prevailing condition for the growth of the Software
Industry is that companies offer higher quality products, that
satisfy the demands and the customer requirements but,
above all, that it generates confidence at the time of its use.
For this reason, companies in the Software Industry have
the challenge of developing strategies with the aim of
increasing the quality and capacity of their processes and,
consequently, the quality of their products and services.
This improvement process involves, on the one hand, the
adoption of a quality model appropriate to the characteristics
of the company, which favors the measurement and
monitoring of various aspects related to the software
development process.
On the other hand, related to the above, it is necessary to
automate the management of elements of the software
development cycle, in order to promote cost reduction and
efficiency in the processes of obtaining final products. In
this case, the agile philosophy turns out to be the most
suitable approach for today’s development environments,
and they are positioned as an alternative to development
processes with high documentation costs and excessively
long processes.
The present doctoral thesis presents AQF (Agile Quality
Framework), a framework whose proposal integrates the design
and development of a model that allows evaluating the quality
of agile software processes, and a platform that will allow
the monitoring of agile software projects together with the
systematic quality assessment of the development process.
This initiative aims to join forces and motivate the academic
community to work in quality with software development
companies to improve the competitiveness and global quality
of this industry based on a framework that adapts to their
realities and allows them to improve their processes easily.
The General Objective of this doctoral thesis is: “To propose
a framework that facilitates the monitoring of projects and
the evaluation of the quality of processes in SME companies
that implement agile practices in software development.”
To achieve this, the following specific objectives were
established:
1. Carry out a study of previous works related to quality
models and software tools applicable to agile processes in
SME business contexts.
2. Propose a quality evaluation model for software development
processes guided by agile practices, based on the definition
of a set of components.
3. Design and implement software tools that support the
management of quality model components and integrate a
framework that evaluates quality in agile processes.
4. Analyze and study the behavior of the proposed framework
using a validation method on real software production
environments.
Thesis contributions
The main contributions to be made with this doctoral thesis are:
• Proposal of a new quality model, QuAM (Quality Agile
Model), that was obtained after conducting a detailed study
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