The paper discussed the development of software system life cycles. The Agile Software Development Alliance emerged during a 3-day work meeting held on February 2001 in Utah, where 17 methodologists finally summarized their ideas about new ways of developing software systems and managing related projects in the Agile Manifesto. The Agile Alliance is not a sect of anarchists who intend to subvert “the established order” of traditional prescriptive methods. Rather, it is a group of methodologists, intensely engaged in software development, which aims to bring out “higher value” through agile methods.

Chapter Contents:

• 13.1 The Agile Manifesto
• 13.2 Scrum
• 13.2.1 Roles
• 13.2.2 Events
• 13.3 Agile testing practices
• 13.3.1 Test-Driven Development
• 13.3.2 Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• 13.3.3 Behavior-Driven Development
• 13.4 Agile in a regulated environment

Inspec keywords: software prototyping; project management

Other keywords: Agile Software Development Alliance; agile software development life cycles; software system; Agile Manifesto; project management

Subjects: Software management