Improving Maintainability with Scrum

How Scrum affects code maintainability

Omschrijving

This thesis aims to provide additional insight into the effect of different development strategies on the maintainability of code. Maintainability is defined as the ease with which a software can be modified. Throughout a software development project a lot of time is spent on maintenance. Therefore code that is easy to maintain is desireable. To be able to detect differences between development strategies a case study with a development team of an Austrian company was conducted. The team changed its development strategy from the waterfall model to Scrum. The development of the code maintainability was analyzed when using the waterfall model and when using Scrum as development strategy. In order to quantifiy the maintainability of code the common approach of using static code analysis is used. Based on results in literature a set of software metrics was used to assess the code maintainbility. The results indicate that Scrum does not decrease the code maintainability as much as the waterfall model over time. Scrum does a better job in preserving the level of code maintainability than the waterfall model. The possible reasons for this are discussed in the thesis.
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Schrijver
Wallerstorfer, Dirk
Titel
Improving Maintainability with Scrum
Uitgever
AV Akademikerverlag
Jaar
2012
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
124
Gewicht
201 gr
EAN
9783639402278
Afmetingen
220 x 150 x 7 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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