Software engineering is a discipline that is little understood by people. It defines how software is developed and maintained to meet the clients’ requirements. Software engineers follow certain systems and standards in their work to meet the clients’ desires. It is on this background that engineers follow specific models in coming up with the final product. One of the models highly used is scrum, which is one of the agile methodologies. However, despite being highly used, it has inherent flaws that need to be corrected. Those flaws are product owner continues changing; do not accept changes in working scrum, sprint’s release time limitation, finally wasting team time within each sprint. This paper presents a new framework, which is an updated version of the current Scrum, to overcome the scum models mentioned issues. In this study, a new framework is presented in a way that is understandable and needed by software developer’s team upon the collected qualitative and quantitative data. The implementation was by making some changes to the current scrum model leading to the “Scrumbear”, certain flaws can be corrected. One of the presented changes involve adding the control master rule to ensure controlling the requirements changing.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses that software has a dual role as both a product and vehicle to deliver functionality. It defines software as a set of programs, documents, and data that form a configuration. The document outlines different types of software applications and categories. It also discusses software engineering practices such as communication, planning, modeling, construction, and coding principles.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts covered in lecture notes. It discusses the software development life cycle (SDLC) which includes key stages like requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, integration and maintenance. The SDLC framework aims to develop software efficiently using a well-defined process. Software engineering principles like abstraction and decomposition are used to reduce complexity when developing large programs.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering and discusses key concepts such as:
1) Software is defined as a set of instructions that provide desired features, functions, and performance when executed and includes programs, data, and documentation.
2) Software engineering applies scientific knowledge and engineering principles to the development of reliable and efficient software within time and budget constraints.
3) The software development life cycle (SDLC) involves analysis, design, implementation, and documentation phases to systematically develop high quality software that meets requirements.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software and describes its key attributes and classifications. It discusses what constitutes good software in terms of maintainability, dependability, efficiency and usability. The document also outlines different types of software and defines software engineering as a systematic approach to software analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. It compares software engineering to computer science and system engineering. Finally, it discusses the two main components of software engineering as the systems engineering approach and development engineering approach.
This document provides information about the "Software Engineering & Information System Design" course at East West University. It includes:
- Details about the course instructor Tanni Mittra and their background.
- Information about the course such as the class webpage, textbooks used, lecture times, and marking distribution.
- The objectives of the course which are to understand software engineering principles and acquire both technical and managerial knowledge.
- An overview of the topics that will be covered in the first chapter on introductions to software, software engineering, and ethics.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile principles, extreme programming practices including test-driven development and pair programming. It also discusses scaling agile methods to larger projects using scrum, with sprints and daily stand-up meetings. Some challenges of applying agile to large, long-term projects with distributed teams are also outlined.
This document summarizes common software myths and realities. It discusses six myths: 1) that standards and procedures are enough to produce good programs, 2) that new hardware ensures good software, 3) that adding programmers to a late project finishes it on time, 4) that general objectives are enough to begin programming, 5) that software is flexible enough to handle continuous changes, and 6) that the job is done once a program works. For each, it provides the reality, such as that people don't always follow standards, tools are more important than hardware, adding people makes projects later, detailed requirements are needed upfront, changes are costly, and 50-70% of effort is post-delivery including documentation.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the requirements engineering process, elicitation, specification, validation, and change. It defines what requirements are, their different types and levels of abstraction. It also discusses stakeholders, and provides examples of functional and non-functional requirements for a healthcare management system called Mentcare.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering. It discusses that software has a dual role as both a product and vehicle to deliver functionality. It defines software as a set of programs, documents, and data that form a configuration. The document outlines different types of software applications and categories. It also discusses software engineering practices such as communication, planning, modeling, construction, and coding principles.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts covered in lecture notes. It discusses the software development life cycle (SDLC) which includes key stages like requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, integration and maintenance. The SDLC framework aims to develop software efficiently using a well-defined process. Software engineering principles like abstraction and decomposition are used to reduce complexity when developing large programs.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering and discusses key concepts such as:
1) Software is defined as a set of instructions that provide desired features, functions, and performance when executed and includes programs, data, and documentation.
2) Software engineering applies scientific knowledge and engineering principles to the development of reliable and efficient software within time and budget constraints.
3) The software development life cycle (SDLC) involves analysis, design, implementation, and documentation phases to systematically develop high quality software that meets requirements.
The document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software and describes its key attributes and classifications. It discusses what constitutes good software in terms of maintainability, dependability, efficiency and usability. The document also outlines different types of software and defines software engineering as a systematic approach to software analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. It compares software engineering to computer science and system engineering. Finally, it discusses the two main components of software engineering as the systems engineering approach and development engineering approach.
This document provides information about the "Software Engineering & Information System Design" course at East West University. It includes:
- Details about the course instructor Tanni Mittra and their background.
- Information about the course such as the class webpage, textbooks used, lecture times, and marking distribution.
- The objectives of the course which are to understand software engineering principles and acquire both technical and managerial knowledge.
- An overview of the topics that will be covered in the first chapter on introductions to software, software engineering, and ethics.
This document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile principles, extreme programming practices including test-driven development and pair programming. It also discusses scaling agile methods to larger projects using scrum, with sprints and daily stand-up meetings. Some challenges of applying agile to large, long-term projects with distributed teams are also outlined.
This document summarizes common software myths and realities. It discusses six myths: 1) that standards and procedures are enough to produce good programs, 2) that new hardware ensures good software, 3) that adding programmers to a late project finishes it on time, 4) that general objectives are enough to begin programming, 5) that software is flexible enough to handle continuous changes, and 6) that the job is done once a program works. For each, it provides the reality, such as that people don't always follow standards, tools are more important than hardware, adding people makes projects later, detailed requirements are needed upfront, changes are costly, and 50-70% of effort is post-delivery including documentation.
The document discusses requirements engineering for software systems. It covers topics like functional and non-functional requirements, the requirements engineering process, elicitation, specification, validation, and change. It defines what requirements are, their different types and levels of abstraction. It also discusses stakeholders, and provides examples of functional and non-functional requirements for a healthcare management system called Mentcare.
Software Engineering is the set of processes and tools to develop software. Software Engineering is the combination of all the tools, techniques, and processes that used in software production. Therefore Software Engineering encompasses all those things that are used in software production like :
Programming Language
Programming Language Design
Software Design Techniques
Tools
Testing
Maintenance
Development etc.
These days object-oriented programming is widely being used. If programming languages will not support object-orientation then it will be very difficult to implement object-oriented design using object-oriented principles. All these efforts made the basis of software engineering.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software as a set of instructions that provide desired functions when executed. Engineering is defined as applying scientific methods to construct, operate, modify and maintain useful devices and systems. Software engineering then applies technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields to the design, development and documentation of software. Some key characteristics of software discussed are that it is developed rather than manufactured, can be easily modified and reproduced, and does not wear out. The document also outlines various types of software applications and discusses software engineering as a layered technology with foundations in quality focus, processes, methods and tools. Finally, it addresses some common software myths from management, customer, and practitioner perspectives.
This document introduces software engineering and discusses its importance. It explains that software engineering is concerned with the theories, methods and tools for professional software development. The document outlines key topics that will be covered, such as frequently asked questions about software engineering, professional and ethical responsibilities, and the costs associated with software engineering. It also discusses challenges facing the field like coping with legacy systems and demands for faster delivery.
This document provides an introduction and overview of key topics in software engineering. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance and costs of software development, different types of software projects and applications, and issues like complexity, security and scale that affect software. It also introduces software engineering processes, methods, and ethics. Common questions about the field are addressed. The document is the first chapter of a book on software engineering.
This document discusses changes in software engineering, including shorter time to market, use of object-oriented applications, user desktop computing, graphical user interfaces, increased networking, open source platforms, newer development models, and economic factors. It provides examples of how each change has impacted software engineering processes and timelines. Topic exercises are included for each change discussed to help students apply concepts.
The document discusses software process models for different project scenarios:
1. For building a larger, more complex application similar to previous projects where requirements are documented, the prototype model would be used to develop the application in increments and allow additions as needed.
2. For integrating departments within a university onto one system to accommodate all processes, the component model would be chosen to reuse existing components, modify requirements, and design the system to incorporate components while developing new software as needed to meet the timeline.
3. For developing the next version of word processing software with tight deadlines, the RAD (Rapid Application Development) model would be selected to allow parallel team work on components to meet the schedule.
4.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an overview of software and software engineering. It discusses that software is designed by engineers and used virtually everywhere. It also outlines important questions for software engineers, different types of software applications, challenges in software development, and realities of software engineering. The document emphasizes that software engineering applies systematic and disciplined approaches to develop reliable and efficient software economically. It also summarizes various software engineering processes, activities, principles, and that software is created to meet business needs.
Software Engineering- Crisis and Process ModelsNishu Rastogi
The document discusses various software engineering process models including the waterfall model, iterative waterfall model, prototyping model, evolutionary model, rapid application development model, and spiral model. It provides details on the key activities and stages in each model's software development life cycle. The document also compares the different models and discusses when each may be best applied based on factors like the problem's understandability, decomposability into modules, and tolerance for incremental delivery.
Introduction to Software Engineering & Information TechnologyGaditek
For Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology this slide will guide you many things about Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology.
The document discusses four systems and suggests appropriate software process models for managing their development:
1. An anti-lock braking system is safety-critical, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to its formal transformations and proof requirements.
2. A virtual reality maintenance system has unpredictable requirements, so the exploratory programming model is suitable.
3. A university accounting system replaces an existing system, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to stable requirements.
4. A train time inquiry system has complex user interfaces but must be stable and reliable. It should use throw-away prototyping followed by incremental development or waterfall.
Software engineering principles in system software designTech_MX
This document discusses software engineering principles for system software design. It defines software engineering as a collection of techniques to produce high quality software on time and budget. Key principles discussed include rigor and formality, separation of concerns, modularity, abstraction, and anticipation of change. Examples of applying these principles to compilers and assemblers are provided. The software development process and different testing approaches are also summarized.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts including what software and software engineering are, the software process and models, system engineering processes, and emergent system properties. It discusses the waterfall model, evolutionary development, and spiral development as software process models. The key stages of the system engineering process are defined as system requirement definition, system design, subsystem development, system integration, and system evolution. Non-functional properties like reliability, performance, safety and security are described as important emergent system properties.
The document discusses software engineering and process models. It defines software engineering as the application of systematic and quantifiable approaches to software development, operation and maintenance. It describes software as computer programs, data structures and documentation.
It then discusses characteristics of software such as it being engineered not manufactured, not wearing out over time, and continuing to be custom built in most cases. It also discusses the software engineering layers including the process, method and tools layers.
Finally, it discusses the software process as a framework involving key activities like communication, planning, modeling, construction and deployment. It explains the generic process model and how activities are populated by actions and tasks to produce work products.
The document discusses several software development life cycle (SDLC) models, including waterfall, iterative, prototyping, and spiral models. It describes the basic stages and processes involved in each model. The waterfall model involves sequential stages of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. The iterative model allows revisiting earlier stages and incremental releases. The prototyping model uses prototypes to gather early user feedback. Finally, the spiral model combines iterative development and risk analysis, proceeding in cycles of planning, risk analysis, development, and evaluation.
Software Engineering is the set of processes and tools to develop software. Software Engineering is the combination of all the tools, techniques, and processes that used in software production. Therefore Software Engineering encompasses all those things that are used in software production like :
Programming Language
Programming Language Design
Software Design Techniques
Tools
Testing
Maintenance
Development etc.
These days object-oriented programming is widely being used. If programming languages will not support object-orientation then it will be very difficult to implement object-oriented design using object-oriented principles. All these efforts made the basis of software engineering.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering. It defines software as a set of instructions that provide desired functions when executed. Engineering is defined as applying scientific methods to construct, operate, modify and maintain useful devices and systems. Software engineering then applies technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields to the design, development and documentation of software. Some key characteristics of software discussed are that it is developed rather than manufactured, can be easily modified and reproduced, and does not wear out. The document also outlines various types of software applications and discusses software engineering as a layered technology with foundations in quality focus, processes, methods and tools. Finally, it addresses some common software myths from management, customer, and practitioner perspectives.
This document introduces software engineering and discusses its importance. It explains that software engineering is concerned with the theories, methods and tools for professional software development. The document outlines key topics that will be covered, such as frequently asked questions about software engineering, professional and ethical responsibilities, and the costs associated with software engineering. It also discusses challenges facing the field like coping with legacy systems and demands for faster delivery.
This document provides an introduction and overview of key topics in software engineering. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance and costs of software development, different types of software projects and applications, and issues like complexity, security and scale that affect software. It also introduces software engineering processes, methods, and ethics. Common questions about the field are addressed. The document is the first chapter of a book on software engineering.
This document discusses changes in software engineering, including shorter time to market, use of object-oriented applications, user desktop computing, graphical user interfaces, increased networking, open source platforms, newer development models, and economic factors. It provides examples of how each change has impacted software engineering processes and timelines. Topic exercises are included for each change discussed to help students apply concepts.
The document discusses software process models for different project scenarios:
1. For building a larger, more complex application similar to previous projects where requirements are documented, the prototype model would be used to develop the application in increments and allow additions as needed.
2. For integrating departments within a university onto one system to accommodate all processes, the component model would be chosen to reuse existing components, modify requirements, and design the system to incorporate components while developing new software as needed to meet the timeline.
3. For developing the next version of word processing software with tight deadlines, the RAD (Rapid Application Development) model would be selected to allow parallel team work on components to meet the schedule.
4.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an overview of software and software engineering. It discusses that software is designed by engineers and used virtually everywhere. It also outlines important questions for software engineers, different types of software applications, challenges in software development, and realities of software engineering. The document emphasizes that software engineering applies systematic and disciplined approaches to develop reliable and efficient software economically. It also summarizes various software engineering processes, activities, principles, and that software is created to meet business needs.
Software Engineering- Crisis and Process ModelsNishu Rastogi
The document discusses various software engineering process models including the waterfall model, iterative waterfall model, prototyping model, evolutionary model, rapid application development model, and spiral model. It provides details on the key activities and stages in each model's software development life cycle. The document also compares the different models and discusses when each may be best applied based on factors like the problem's understandability, decomposability into modules, and tolerance for incremental delivery.
Introduction to Software Engineering & Information TechnologyGaditek
For Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology this slide will guide you many things about Introduction to Software Engineering & Information Technology.
The document discusses four systems and suggests appropriate software process models for managing their development:
1. An anti-lock braking system is safety-critical, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to its formal transformations and proof requirements.
2. A virtual reality maintenance system has unpredictable requirements, so the exploratory programming model is suitable.
3. A university accounting system replaces an existing system, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to stable requirements.
4. A train time inquiry system has complex user interfaces but must be stable and reliable. It should use throw-away prototyping followed by incremental development or waterfall.
Software engineering principles in system software designTech_MX
This document discusses software engineering principles for system software design. It defines software engineering as a collection of techniques to produce high quality software on time and budget. Key principles discussed include rigor and formality, separation of concerns, modularity, abstraction, and anticipation of change. Examples of applying these principles to compilers and assemblers are provided. The software development process and different testing approaches are also summarized.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch 4Mohammed Romi
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- The importance of specifying both functional and non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements place constraints on system functions and development process.
- The software requirements specification document defines what the system must do and includes both user and system requirements. It should not describe how the system will be implemented.
- Requirements engineering involves eliciting, analyzing, validating and managing requirements throughout the development lifecycle. Precise, complete and consistent requirements are important for development.
The document discusses agile software development methods. It covers topics like agile methods, techniques, and project management. Agile development aims to rapidly develop and deliver working software through iterative processes, customer collaboration, and responding to changing requirements. Extreme programming (XP) is an influential agile method that uses practices like test-driven development, pair programming, frequent refactoring, and user stories for requirements specification. The key principles of agile methods are also outlined.
The document discusses several topics related to software project management including risk management, managing people, and teamwork. It describes the key activities of a project manager including planning, risk assessment, people management, reporting, and proposal writing. Specific risks at the project, product, and business levels are defined and strategies for risk identification, analysis, planning, monitoring, and mitigation are outlined. Effective people management is also emphasized, including motivating team members through satisfying different human needs and personality types. A case study demonstrates how addressing an individual team member's motivation issues can improve project outcomes.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts including what software and software engineering are, the software process and models, system engineering processes, and emergent system properties. It discusses the waterfall model, evolutionary development, and spiral development as software process models. The key stages of the system engineering process are defined as system requirement definition, system design, subsystem development, system integration, and system evolution. Non-functional properties like reliability, performance, safety and security are described as important emergent system properties.
The document discusses software engineering and process models. It defines software engineering as the application of systematic and quantifiable approaches to software development, operation and maintenance. It describes software as computer programs, data structures and documentation.
It then discusses characteristics of software such as it being engineered not manufactured, not wearing out over time, and continuing to be custom built in most cases. It also discusses the software engineering layers including the process, method and tools layers.
Finally, it discusses the software process as a framework involving key activities like communication, planning, modeling, construction and deployment. It explains the generic process model and how activities are populated by actions and tasks to produce work products.
The document discusses several software development life cycle (SDLC) models, including waterfall, iterative, prototyping, and spiral models. It describes the basic stages and processes involved in each model. The waterfall model involves sequential stages of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. The iterative model allows revisiting earlier stages and incremental releases. The prototyping model uses prototypes to gather early user feedback. Finally, the spiral model combines iterative development and risk analysis, proceeding in cycles of planning, risk analysis, development, and evaluation.
Elementary Probability theory Chapter 2.pptxethiouniverse
The document discusses various software process models including waterfall, iterative, incremental, evolutionary (prototyping and spiral), and component-based development models. It describes the key activities and characteristics of each model and discusses when each may be applicable. The waterfall model presents a linear sequential flow while evolutionary models like prototyping and spiral are iterative and incremental to accommodate changing requirements.
fter Completing this chapter you should be able to:
understand what software engineering is and why it is important;
understand the concepts of software processes and software process models;
Compare and contrast a variety of models
understand some ethical and professional issues that are important for software engineers;
This document provides information on the Software Engineering course with code 210253. It is a 3 credit course with a mid-semester exam worth 30 marks and an end-semester exam worth 70 marks. The syllabus covers topics like introduction to software engineering, software process models, prescriptive process models (waterfall, incremental, evolutionary), and agile software development. It also discusses concepts like software engineering fundamentals, process frameworks, generic process activities, prescriptive process models, evolutionary models, concurrent development model, and principles of software engineering practice.
Evolution of software; Characteristics of software; Software applications; Components of software; Software myths; Software problems; Software reuse; Overview of risk management; Process visibility; Professional responsibility.
This document provides an overview of software engineering. It discusses key topics like software evolution, paradigms, characteristics, and the software development life cycle (SDLC). The SDLC is described as a structured sequence of stages to develop software, including communication, requirements gathering, feasibility study, system analysis, design, coding, testing, integration, implementation, and operation and maintenance. Software engineering aims to develop high-quality software using well-defined principles and methods, addressing issues like exceeding timelines and budgets seen in traditional software development.
Understanding the Software Development Lifecycle [SDLC] | A Comprehensive GuideGeorgeStanley21
Discover the stages involved in the Software Development Lifecycle [SDLC], from planning to maintenance, and learn how to streamline your development process for optimal results.
Perspectives on the adherance to scrum rules in software project managementnooriasukmaningtyas
Adapting users need to fulfill their requirements and delivering products to be on time within the planned cost, is critical matter that all software project managers (SPM) put the highest priority for it while considering the users satisfaction at the same time. Agile methodology is one of the solutions provided by software engineers (SE), to get the customers involved in the system development life cycle (SDLC) to avoid the risk nonconformance cost. Yet SPM’s still facing the nonconformance costs and the dynamic changes, and the root cause of the issue is not pointed on to find a solution for it. This undertaking research aimed at determining whether software developers understand scrum rules. In addition, how does this knowledge gab affect the software projects success from the project management perspective. Furthermore, the engagement studied the impact of lack of enough knowledge on the topic to project delivery. The collected data from the qualitative and quantitative methods, which was conducted with scrum teams who worked in the health information system (HIS), Educational solutions, and Governmental solutions has showed deviations in organizational practices and team conflicting, competition, and pressure as well as declined product quality.
Software Engineering in a Quick and Easy way - v1.pdfKAJAL MANDAL
The Most Common must know Software Development life cycle Models. As we discussed in our earlier article on Software Engineering, we have learned about the aspects of Software Engineering and the qualities that it should possess. Now let us move ahead and learn about the models of the software development life cycle. What is a software development life cycle? A software development life cycle, sometimes also called the SDLC life cycle, represents and describes the various activities that are to be performed to build a software product. These activities are grouped into several phases and sequentially linked in order. Hence we can also say, that a software development life cycle is a structured list of activities that are followed to develop software, from the inception to the delivery of the final product. During any phase of the life cycle of development, one or more activities might have to be carried out to start or finish that phase. For example, in the inception phase of actual coding, it is expected that the architectural designing phase is completed. Why software development life cycle model is required? In every model of SDLC, every phase may have its own child life cycle, for every team of a specific skill set. So in an environment of complicated projects and a variety of skill-based teams, it is vital to follow a pre-defined structured process. This creates discipline and maintains decorum in the working culture. All team members are interdependent. Failure of any one team will affect the deliverables of other teams. And all together it might lead to project failures. SDLC also defines entry and exit criteria for every phase. For example, say, if a team member starts coding, assuming that pro-activeness will help finish the project much earlier. This would be the perfect recipe for disaster and project failure. Why? Because, after putting down a month of effort they might realize that the project needs a roving vehicle on Mars to collect data. Unfortunately, the team doesn’t have that with them. So they can not proceed further. That means a feasibility study was not performed before the team started working on deliverables. Which in technical terms, is a breach of SDLC, and hence the loss of effort, or project failure. The team should have done a feasibility study before jumping straight into deliverables. Then they would have realized that the project is not doable, many days in advance. As so, they could have saved some unnecessary effort. Hence it is strongly suggested to follow a methodology, or process while working on complex and team-based projects. It becomes easier for the entire team to work together, support each other, manage, and track the progress of the development. Regardless of the model you follow, SDLC models always ensure smooth delivery, reporting, and chaos-free delivery of the project. Classic Waterfall Model. Prototyping Model. Iterative Waterfall Model. Rapid Action Development. Spiral Model.
The document discusses various topics related to software engineering including:
1. It defines software and describes attributes of good software such as functionality, maintainability, dependability, and usability.
2. It explains that software engineering is concerned with all aspects of software production, whereas computer science focuses more on theory and fundamentals.
3. Key attributes of good software are discussed including maintainability, dependability, efficiency, and acceptability.
4. Various software engineering models such as waterfall, prototyping, spiral, and agile models are briefly introduced.
This document discusses various software development life cycle models including the V-Model, Prototyping Model, Extreme Programming, Synchronize-and-Stabilize Model, Fountain Model, and Spiral Model. It provides an overview and description of each model, outlining their key characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. The models are classified based on features of software projects to determine the most appropriate life cycle approach.
This document discusses Boehm's top 10 principles of conventional software management and important trends in improving software economics. It also covers the three generations of software development (conventional, transition, and modern practices), comparing their characteristics. Finally, it lists and explains 10 principles of conventional software engineering and the top 10 principles of modern software management.
DESQA a Software Quality Assurance FrameworkIJERA Editor
In current software development lifecycles of heterogeneous environments, the pitfalls businesses have to face are that software defect tracking, measurements and quality assurance do not start early enough in the development process. In fact the cost of fixing a defect in a production environment is much higher than in the initial phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which is particularly true for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Thus the aim of this study is to develop a new framework for defect tracking and detection and quality estimation for early stages particularly for the design stage of the SDLC. Part of the objectives of this work is to conceptualize, borrow and customize from known frameworks, such as object-oriented programming to build a solid framework using automated rule based intelligent mechanisms to detect and classify defects in software design of SOA. The implementation part demonstrated how the framework can predict the quality level of the designed software. The results showed a good level of quality estimation can be achieved based on the number of design attributes, the number of quality attributes and the number of SOA Design Defects. Assessment shows that metrics provide guidelines to indicate the progress that a software system has made and the quality of design. Using these guidelines, we can develop more usable and maintainable software systems to fulfill the demand of efficient systems for software applications. Another valuable result coming from this study is that developers are trying to keep backwards compatibility when they introduce new functionality. Sometimes, in the same newly-introduced elements developers perform necessary breaking changes in future versions. In that way they give time to their clients to adapt their systems. This is a very valuable practice for the developers because they have more time to assess the quality of their software before releasing it. Other improvements in this research include investigation of other design attributes and SOA Design Defects which can be computed in extending the tests we performed.
This document provides an overview and summary of a project report for a password manager application. The project aims to develop a graphical user interface application that allows users to store login credentials for various websites and applications. It will feature functionality to add, update, and remove login details, as well as generate secure random passwords. The report outlines the objectives, analysis, design, and testing approach for the project. It describes the features and benefits of a password manager, as well as the tools and technologies that will be used such as Python, Tkinter for the GUI, and a MySQL database.
This document discusses several software development models and practices. It describes the waterfall model which involves sequential stages of requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. It also covers prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), and component assembly models which are more iterative in nature. The prototyping model involves creating prototypes to help define requirements, RAD emphasizes reuse and short development cycles, and component assembly focuses on reusing existing software components.
construction management system final year reportchiragbarasiya
This document provides an overview and details of a construction management system project. It includes 5 chapters that cover:
1) An introduction to the system including its modules, functionality, and technologies used
2) Project management details such as the development model, planning, scheduling, and risk management
3) System requirements including hardware, software, and feasibility analysis
4) System analysis including use cases, data flow diagrams, and entity relationship diagrams
5) System design including the user interface, database structure, and sequence diagrams
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“Scrumbear” framework for solving traditional scrum model problems
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“Scrumbear” framework for solving traditional scrum model
problems
Leanah Alsaber, Ebtesam Al Elsheikh, Sarah Aljumah, Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail
College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 8, 2020
Revised Jun 16, 2020
Accepted Jul 25, 2020
Software engineering is a discipline that is little understood by people.
It defines how software is developed and maintained to meet the clients’
requirements. Software engineers follow certain systems and standards in
their work to meet the clients’ desires. It is on this background that engineers
follow specific models in coming up with the final product. One of the
models highly used is scrum, which is one of the agile methodologies.
However, despite being highly used, it has inherent flaws that need to be
corrected. Those flaws are product owner continues changing; do not accept
changes in working scrum, sprint’s release time limitation, finally wasting
team time within each sprint. This paper presents a new framework, which is
an updated version of the current Scrum, to overcome the scum models
mentioned issues. In this study, a new framework is presented in a way that
is understandable and needed by software developer’s team upon the
collected qualitative and quantitative data. The implementation was by making
some changes to the current scrum model leading to the “Scrumbear”, certain
flaws can be corrected. One of the presented changes involve adding the
control master rule to ensure controlling the requirements changing.
Keywords:
Agile
Framework
Scrum
Software development
Software engineering
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Leanah Alsaber,
College of Computer and Information Sciences,
Prince Sultan University,
66833 Rafha Street, Riyadh 11586 Saudi Arabia.
Email: Leanah.Alsaber@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
Technology rapidly changing and the customers start to have the instant needs of the products with
no patient for waiting for a long process, which may take months and could end up with different
requirements. According to [1], the customers testing on the provided version is to provide their inputs for
enhancement and requirements accuracy. From here, the customer is permitted to demonstrate and reveal
their actual needs. Therefore, it could be said that users and customers’ needs become more craving to change
than before. SE is an approach of engineering the process of system development life cycle (SDLC) [2]. SD has
continued to improve the process for years and presented different methods to decrease the difficulties and
problems [3]. As a result, to cover the needs of the customers continuous changes, SE start to adapt the
concept of agility by having shorter development period and continuous new versions to fulfill the customer
satisfactions [4]. There are many methods have been used by SE to carry out the products to customers. One
of these methods is Agile, which is consisting of three main models Kanban, Extreme Programing, and
Scrum. Scrum is an agile model that maintain rapid and continues implementation of requirement [5].
Moreover, upon practices and discussed statistics, scrum is more suitable for medium to small products
business. Scrum team have some challenges to face as the continues requirements change by the product
owner, no changes are accepted while the sprints is under development, sprints and release time limitations,
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and finally the unproductive time period spent by the team. In the interest of these issues, as software
engineers in this paper we introduce a new proposed framework to overcome these issues by covering them
by adding a new role as a control master, besides having number of sprints working at the same time to have
on release for them at each time. This framework was implemented after analyzing the data from
the qualitative and quantitative conducted techniques.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Software engineering SE is a methodical discipline/approach that is applied in the management
of software lifecycle processes in addressing the issues of the low-quality software projects to produce
high-quality software and software solutions. It is more about engineering in terms of analysis, design,
development, and maintenance processes. Besides, SE helps in ensuring that the projects meet all prerequisite
standards within the projected budgets and time plans. According to IEEE, SE defined as the process of
applying a methodical, disciplined, and quantifiable approach in developing, operating, and maintaining
software-the interplay between engineering and software. Computer systems need to be reliable and efficient;
which is met through systematic software processes. SE has played a role in the creation of large, extensive
and dynamic software systems that operate in a vast range of fields [6]. Because of SE, the software that is
developed has grown tremendously since the time of introducing the process.
2.1. SE layers
To be able to understand SE, one needs to view and comprehend that it is a layered technology
where each layer seeks the fulfillment of its predecessor show in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Software engineering layers
‒ Quality focus
The last layer is the quality layer; which is used as the stone base of all layers in SE. It is about
the correctness of the requirement and how it is connected to the functionality, and how the software should
be performed eventually. In addition, it is about the maintainability of the software and its integrity from
the perspective of security amongst other features. Finally, it is about the usability and what it
the necessitated effort to run the software.
‒ Process
After the quality layer, the process layer comes next, and it is considered as the foundation of SE.
This layer defines the key processes that one has to focus critically on to ensure the effective delivery
of the software, where it works as a glue to keep all the layers together. This layer enables the development
of software in the designated time; it also has the definition of the SE framework as explained in
the following sections.
‒ Methods
The Method layer mainly answers the questions of “How-to” do the processes, and it includes
the SDLC that covers such tasks in the SDLC as in requirements, designing, implementation, testing and
support. SDLC offers technical knowledge behind the development of software. It is considered crucial as it
covers broad tasks such as in the SDLC [7].
‒ Tools
Finally, the last layer is a tool, which provides fully-/semi-automated support for its predecessors -
the methods and the process layers. In this layer, the tools integrated in the need of passing the information,
like when information is created by one, it could be used others. In the design position, the “Microsoft
publisher” is counted as a tool in SE for the web designing.
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2.2. Software process
This forms a sequence of functions that should be followed to develop software. There are numerous
models of software, each of which consists of these following main activities:
‒ Requirements engineering
This is where all the business and system requirements are elicited, analyzed, evaluated and
validated.
‒ Design
This is where the system components are designed along with the design of the system’s logical
structure.
‒ Implementation
It is the process where system programming and construction are performed to present the software.
‒ Testing
As any software should be reliable and works without failure in the intended requirements to
consider it a successful software [8]. The testing where it is a verification & validation process to test and
ensure that the implementation is done correctly and that the system is performing in the right manner.
‒ Maintenance
It is about enhancing and modifying the system to meet requirements changes. Furthermore,
the software process has a collection of actions and tasks to be performed. In fact, the software process is
adaptable to allow software engineers to select the appropriate set of tasks as well as the work actions.
Some of the software process models support this adaptation [9].
2.3. Process framework
This constructs the foundation of the software engineering processes by fronting several framework
operations. These framework activities are suitable for any software project regardless of complexity or size.
The generic process framework for software engineering includes five activities, namely:
‒ Communication
It is the first activity and involves requirements gathering, where the software engineers
communicate with customers and other relevant stakeholders. The need of the communication between
the stakeholders is a fact, which needs management through the software process [10].
‒ Planning
It involves describing technical tasks to be conducted, the required resources, the required work
products to be produced, the possible risks, and the work schedule [9].
‒ Modeling
It involves creating models that assist the client/developer to understand the requirements needed for
the software [11].
‒ Construction
This is where the actual software is built, and it involves generating codes and eventually testing
the software to determine the presence of any errors and bugs.
‒ Deployment
Which is the final activity of the software process. It involves delivering the product to the client
who will evaluate it and give their feedback [9].
Generally, the software process details differ from one software project to another, whereas
the framework activities remain the same for all software projects. Moreover, the framework activities are
applied in an iterative manner in some software projects. Then again, other software projects have applied
the activities in a sequence manner [12].
2.4. Agile
Agile means the ability to move quickly, and easily, and in SE it is a SD method where the software
is implemented in an iterative software process. Agile has been the lead method of all process in software
project due to its ability, flexibility, and tolerance in accepting the requirement changes. The continuous
communication with customers helps to get the actual need from them in addition with getting
the requirements based on previous cases [13]. Here where agile considering this and where the product
could be implemented in iterations, where the customer provides their recommendations and the quick
implementation will be processed in the Agile. Here in the agility process, the team can work in divide
the software delivery process in N iterations depending on the business needs and plan [14]. Agile is about
teamwork and personal interaction over tools, in order to deliver a running and usable software product over
documentations as in linear software processes, and about negotiation over contracts. One of the agile models
is the Scrum model, which is the most process model being used in delivering software products.
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2.5. Scrum
Scrum is a framework that could be described as a lightweight framework that defines a set of steps
to manage and control the SD process. In SE scrum is a mash-up of iterative and incremental SD agile model
and it mainly focuses on team collaboration and self-organization. The objective of designing Scrum was to
increase development speed, define a culture to focus on performance, support stakeholder value creation
and improve individual development and quality of life [15-17].
2.6. Scrum roles
Scrum has three core roles, namely, the product owner, scrum master, plus scrum team, each of
which has a set of tasks and responsibilities [18].
‒ Product owner
It is supposed to understand the business and customer needs. In addition, the product owner
accounts for the requirements prioritization, and ensures that the scrum team delivers the best value to the
enterprise.
‒ Scrum master
It is an accounting for elimination and removal of impediments from the scrum team to enhance
the deliverables. In fact, they coach the scrum team and motivates them to focus on the tasks, ensures
following and applying the process as supposed.
‒ Team
This team is responsible for delivering the increments, and it consists of three to nine members; each
member has cross-functional skills. The team members are accountable for developing the software and their
main tasks include analyzing the requirements, designing the software, developing and testing the software [19].
2.7. Scrum flow
First, Scrum has a basic unit of development, which called sprint. Sprint’s duration ranges from one-
four weeks where each sprint increment is ready for release to the customer. As can be seen in Figure 2
Scrum consists of three artifacts; product backlog, spring backlog and in increment. The product backlog is
a selected list of requests/topographies which created by the product owner. Once a feature is added to the
backlog, it is called a user story; thus, a sprint buildup is a list of user stories that will be developed in the
current sprint. The last artifact is the increment, which is a set of items of product backlog completed during
a sprint. Releasing the increment is a decision by the product owner. In addition, Scrum has a set of key
meetings; planning for sprints, daily scrum, review of sprint plus sprint retrospective. The scrum master
enables all of these consultations and those in attendance include the owner and the scrum team.
In the planning summit, the client clarifies the utmost priority user stories and the sprint backlog is initiated
after the agreement with the scrum team. The second meeting is the daily scrum to follow up with the scrum
team and ensure that there are no blockers or issues that could affect the progress. The third consultation is
a sprint review for the progress review. And, the fourth meeting is sprint retrospective where the lessons
learned from the current sprint are identified to be applied next sprint to improve the process [18-20].
Figure 2. Scrum model process
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2.8. Scrum issues
Though Scrum is considered as one of the great models of agile, yet it has some issues [21, 22].
As the continuous incrementing changes by the client in addition of a critical changes must be done to
the production which could be avoided if was changes are accepted directly before going to the production [23].
3. RESEARCH METHOD
A questionnaire distributed online among employees who worked in the development of different
solutions for different sectors; such as Educational sector, Health sector, and governmental sector. This
online questionnaire implemented to evaluate and see the existence of the issues, and to be able to provide
a solution to overcome them. Moreover, the companies’ size where the questionnaire took a place goes
between 5000 employees to +20,000 employees.
The questionnaire results show that 56.66% of the scrum team works in 2 and more sprints at the
same time. Yet the team who works on these sprints, 70% of them do accept changes and 50% do apply it
within the current sprint working sprints and 50% do not have a change control process to control the sprints.
Moreover, 83.33% of the teams said that the product owner does make changes to the working sprints.
In addition, because of these issues and more of them 62.07% has said that this adds extra pressure to
the team work, which is against the concept of scrum that clarifies scrum team are a team who works in
harmony and having a happy member. The SE’s has analyzed the questionnaire results and summarized
the main critical issues that affect the scrum process.
A list of issues resulted from the questionnaire and from the perspective and experience of the scrum
team, which have been working with scrum for years, and with different business domains. The collected
data represent flaws, which this paper has checked to for discussion to have a solution for them. The flaws
summarized in points:
‒ Product owner continuous changing
One of the flaws is when the product owner keeps asking for changes for the sake of business urges
and customer needs. Moreover, this is affecting the sprint planning, team focus, and team harmony at work.
‒ No changing accepted in working sprints
Not accepting the changes is more suitable for medium to small businesses. However, for huge and
critical business domains as health and governmental solutions, continues requirement changes are
predictable. In addition, for those changes, scrum team will be always under pressure because of the added
work and scrum will suffer from the uncontrolled changes that the product owner keeps requesting as
explained in the previous point. Which these changes will affect the actual plan and schedule for a project
estimation, leading to providing inaccurate plan which will cause a delay on the actual delivery date. Having
such this negative impact can cause critical risks [24].
‒ Sprints and release time limitations
Here, the concept that the sprint has a duration of two-to-four weeks, which is not enough time to
have a release with much crucial functionality; especially in the big domain business. Which lead to
the dissatisfaction of the customer in the way of not satisfying the business with these small releases.
‒ Wasting time
In the current scrum, each team will go in the phase of “not-doing-anything” and waiting for others.
As the QA team of the sprint waiting for the developers to finish their work to so they can start do testing,
and this is done in the beginning of each sprint. The same as the developer who either waits for the QA
feedback so they can be released from the sprint or wait to receive the QA finding bugs in which to be
solved. Imagining how this is happening into many sprints for big projects, how many hours will be the left
resulting of this time, and where the team could use it doing some actual work.
3.1. Proposed model
In the proposed model show in Figure 3, we have tried to put more attention in the gaps caused by
the previously summarized problems, which affect the current business to control them by adding one more
rule and regression test for an N+1 sprint before each release. The basic concept is to add a “Control Master”
rule, to control the slipping and the uncontrolled requirements that occur in the sprint while it is under
process. Neither the developers nor the quality assurance QA team can control those added changes by
the product owner because of the urgent cases. The added changes are explained as:
‒ Control master
It is a new rule that is responsible for controlling the requirement changes in the scrum lifespan; by
studying those changes before adding them to the sprint and disturbing unnecessarily. Instead, let the team
focus on the implementation of current sprint backlog for the control master to attend the daily meeting
and evaluate changes and their effectiveness.
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‒ N-sprint
Here is the actual concept of the sprint; however, instead of having one release for one sprint, it will
involve one release for several sprints at once. This process suite the big business that needs the production
releases to have as much functionality as it could for the urge of the business needs. Explaining the concept
involves having the resources working in the first sprint each in their rule, and when the developer finishes
their first sprints and hand the work over to the QA to start, the developer here can directly start working on
the backlog of the second sprint. When they finish from the second sprint, the developer might go back to
the first sprint to solve any finding bugs, or they can move to N number of sprints. The same applies for
the QA; but for clarifications, each sprint will still have its own planned backlog. Eventually, after finishing
the N sprints, the QA will do a regression test before the release.
‒ Regression test
Here the QA team will test the N-Sprints that will be combined into one increment in order to ensure
the stability of the increment-the changes or bug fixes do not affect the previous functionalities, and they are
not introducing any new errors [25]. Moreover, regression tests ensure that all the requirements have been
implemented and the increment is ready to be released to the customer. In the proposed model, the regression
test will be applied at the end of N-Sprints to ensure that all sprints have been implemented, no defects exist,
and that the N-Sprints are ready to be released. Eventually, the naming is based on the model that has
the concept of the scrum model and the added changes shape from the first eye site it looks like a bear, which
leads to name this model to be “Scrumbear”.
Figure 3. Scrumbear proposed model
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The findings of the questionnaire indicate that 56.66% of the scrum team operates concurrently in 2
and more sprints. However, the team that works on these sprints, 70% support improvements and 50%
implement it to the existing sprint work sprints and 50% have no change management mechanism to
management the sprints. In addition, 83.33% of the teams said the owner of the company is making
improvements to the working sprints. In addition, 62.07% said this brings additional strain to the team
because of these problems and more of them, which are against the scrum idea that clarifies scrum team, are
a team that operates in a good environment and has a satisfied member. The SE's evaluated the results of
the questionnaire and outlined the principal critical issues affecting the scrum process.
As in the comparison, in Table 1 the new model will help in resolving some of the flaws that already
exist and discussed in the current scrum. Through the adoption of Scrumbear, the scrum team will be able to
work in the scrum environment, which has a requirement of changing the management process to control and
manage the entire process. Due to this change, the team will start working in the new changes and by having
the control master with the collaboration of the scrum master it ensures that there is no pressure in
completing the sprints while other sprints are working, at the same time, the team time will be fully used
without affecting each sprint time.
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Table 1. Comparison between traditional Scrum and Scrumbear
Discussion Description Traditional Scrum Scrumbear
Control Changes Where the rule played by the control master to control the changes NO YES
Accept Changes To allow changes within the current working sprint NO YES
Team time wasting The time where a team member does not do anything and waiting the
result from another team member.
YES NO
5. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, software engineering is an important subject especially now that the world
of technology is growing at a very fast pace. It is on this background that the paper “Scrumbear” framework
to overcome the traditional Scrum model problems, has deliberated on how teams can improve their output.
After discussing the summarized collected problems, the product owner continuous changing, no accepted
changes in the active sprints, the time limitation of sprints and release, and wasting time that could be used in
other active sprints to fast-moving the production releases delivery. By using the new proposed Scrumbear
framework, those problems would be tackled and solved. It shown that traditional Scrum model is not
support the control of changes and not even accept the changes since the full authorized changes are in
business owner/software owner decisions. Furthermore, based on evaluation results of the Traditional Scrum,
it also proved that the wasting of the team member’s time where a team member does not do anything and
wait for the result from other team member in order to proceed for the next Sprint. All the problems arise
from traditional Scrum are solved by implementation of the Scrumbear framework.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was partially supported by the Artificial Intelligence Data Analytics Lab (AIDA), Prince
Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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