Revisiting agile software development process based on latest software industry trends

Abstract

In today’s software development process, we have reached a tipping point in time where being agile is equally important to having, the ability to release quality assured software at our discretion. This has been made possible by following the agile process that we have known since it came into existence in the early 2000s. Agile process provides us a way to streamline our product management, engineering and testing teams to work closely and efficiently in iterative cycles. By following agile processes, we are today able to achieve rapid software development as per our product requirements. Nowadays having competitive advantage is deemed essential for business, as is having the ability to release software products at will. Inf order to achieve this goal agile software development process has improved over the last 2 decades. In this paper we aim to highlight how this agile process function in the present-day software industry.

Subject Classification: (2010):

• Primary 68N30

Keywords:

• Agile Software Development Process
• Software Development
• Software Testing