1. The Design Space of Software development methodologies
CS2310: FINAL PROJECT
KADIE CLANCY

2. Motivation
A multitude of software development methodologies to choose from
Selection of an appropriate methodology may not always be a straightforward process
The methodology that provides the most benefit to the project may be overlooked
created the design space of software development methodologies
in which I seek to comprehend different methodologies plotted as points
SOLUTION

3. Previous work
Previous work has been done to apply the principles of design space analysis to a variety of projects
Computer input devices [2]
Design space of jet engines [3]
Seminar topic: design space for bug fixes and how developers navigate it [1]

4. Design space dimensions
Survey of popular methodologies to determine features that are descriptive and common
Tried to focus on characteristics of the methodologies, rather than characteristics of the project or team
While not exhaustive, dimensions descriptive enough to distinguish methodologies from one another when plotted

5. Design space dimensions

7. Application to patterns in this space
Problem: problem the software is being developed to fix
Context: budget, deadline, client, team, project type, etc.
Solution: most appropriate methodology (out of many considered on the design space)
decided upon based on how the components of the context constrain certain dimensions of the design space.
for example: if client time is limited, the method chosen must be restrained to “only initial reqs” on the user involvement dimension

8. Conclusions
Design space can be used to visualize groups of similar methodologies
Note areas for the creation of new methodologies
Project managers may use a space of this type as a tool in the selection of an appropriate methodology for specific projects
All methods may be visualized in one place

9. References
[1] E. Murphy-Hill, T. Zimmermann, C. Bird, and N. Nagappan, The design of bug fixes, in Proc. Int. Conf. Softw. Eng., 2013, pp [2] S. Card, J. MacKinlay, and G. Robertson. A morphological analysis of the design space of input devices. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 9:99122, [3] Zwicky, F. The morphological approach to discovery, invention, research, and construction. In New Methods of Thought and Procedure, F. Zwicky and A. G. Wilson, Eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1967, [4] Murphy-Hill, E., Zimmermann, T., Bird, C., and Nagappan, N., The Design Space of Bug Fixes and How Developers Navigate It. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 41, 1, [5] Software Development Methodologies, development-methodologies. [6] Software Development life sycle Models Methodologies, melsatar.blog/2012/03/15/software-development-life-cycle-models-and- methodologies.