Recent empirical studies have been conducted identifying a number of issues and
advantages of incremental and agile methods. However, the majority of studies focused on …

So far, only few in-depth studies focused on the direct comparison of process models in
general, and between plan-driven and incremental/agile approaches in particular. That is, it …

Nowadays one key question for most organizations is which of the agile practices should be
implemented to improve product quality. This systematic literature review surveys studies …

An automatic diagnosis system is proposed by this paper for a more and more important
issue, preventive maintenance. Every year, various workplace accidents happen due to …

Abstract Knowledge represents a sustainable asset for innovative firms and specifically
software industries working in unpredictable environments. Until the late 90's, the most …

Agile software development (ASD) resulted from widespread professional discontent with
traditional approaches; development projects' high failure rates; and, most important, the …

Software is nowadays omnipresent in many consumer and business products. From cars to
complex business software over simple smart phone apps, many people regularly use …

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted on postgraduate students of an Object
Oriented Programming (OOP) course in which pair programming was applied as an …

Today agile approaches are often used for the development of digital products. Since their
development in the 90s, Agile Methodologies, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming …

Agile development methodologies have gained great interest in research and practice. As
their introduction considerably changes traditional working habits of developers, the long …