Pekka Abrahamsson

Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed

While extreme programming (XP) relies on certain principles, it requires an extensive set of tools to enable an effective execution of its practices. In many companies, putting stories on the board may not be sufficient for managing rapidly changing requirements. The objective of This work is to report the results from...

Managing commitments and risks: challenges in distributed agile development

Usability Assessment of an Extreme Programming Project: Close Co-operation with the Customer Does Not Equal to Good Usability

The analysis reveals that XP pays almost no attention on the usability of the software, apart from some actions that can be regarded as implicit usability evaluations, and that in XP the team transfers the responsibility of the product's usability to the customer.

Self-Adaptability of Agile Software Processes: A Case Study on Post-iteration Workshops

Empirical results show that with less than 4% effort it is possible to hold post-iteration workshops that significantly help to improve and optimize practices and enhance the learning and satisfaction of the project team.

Empirical Evaluation of Agile Software Development: The Controlled Case Study Approach

A controlled case study approach is presented, which has been applied in a study of extreme programming methodology performed in close-to-industry settings, which considers the generation of both quantitative and qualitative data

Learning from agile software development

Extreme Programming: Reassessing the Requirements Management Process for an Offsite Customer

Results from a study of a mobile application development project where the Offsite Customer Process Model was empirically evaluated show that the model itself is context-dependent and it has to be adapted to the underlying development process.

Extreme programming: a survey of empirical data from a controlled case study

Software Reuse and the Test Development Process: A Combined Approach

This paper suggests a test development process model that takes software reuse techniques and activities into account and shows further that in order to produce reusable test material, the software entities must be expressed in terms of features, in which the test materials are attached to.

Software process improvement : 12th European Conference, EuroSPI 2005, Budapest, Hungary, November 9-11, 2005 : proceedings

This paper focuses on software process improvement in the context of software testing, with a focus on the development of Agile methods and software issues.

Mobile-D for Mobile Software : How to Use Agile Approaches for the Efficient Development of Mobile Applications

This tutorial seeks to provide an overview on the special characteristics of mobile software development and introduce a development approach called MobileD, which combines several agile approaches to meet the needs of volatile mobile application development, which has been validated in five empirical cases.

Software Process Improvement - EuroSPI 2005 Conference

This book constitutes the refereed research proceeding of the 12th European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI 2005, held in Budapest, Hungary in November 2005 and contains 18 revised full papers presented.