Systems Development Methodologies 3rd semester Autum 2014

Agenda for week 1 Curriculum Be the worst Quality – An agile point of view. Systems development Quality o Product o Process

‘Be the worst’ Be the worst of the people you are surrounded by or “surrond yourself with really greast people” Be a student and have an open mind Connect with experts Immerse yourself “ agile is about learning. For every skill you master, there’s a new one to start learning”:

Quality – An agile point of view What is quality Waste in Software – bugs. – Usability issues – Unused features. Agile approach to improve Quality: - Short Release Cykles - Test-Driven Development (TDD) - Acceptance test driven development (ATDD) - Customer involvement (XP)

curriculum System architecture Experiments Quality in product and process Project management Modern methodologies (agile) Internal exam after 4 th semester based on a project Make the experimentproject in the middel of this semester

Quality: Usability Ten usability heuristics Its about recognizing usability principles (the “heuristics”). We are taking about 10 principles. o Read the article o assignment

Quality: Usability Heuristic evaluation o Read the article o assignment

quality Se Sommerville chapter 24 on my website

Process Improvement Se sommerville chapter 26 on my website

Quality: an agile point of view Quality is a shared underlying theme guiding each and every practice and value used by an agile team The process of increasing quality is an exercise in ‘eliminating waste’ (borrowed from lean manufacturing which talks about all the things preventing a team from reaching its goal)

Quality: an agile point of view Waste in software: o Bugs o Usability issues o Unused features

Quality: an agile point of view Agile approach for improving quality: o Short release cycles o Test-driven development o Acceptance test-driven development o On-site customers ‘the only way to go fast is working in high quality’