Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference, XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, May 21–25, 2018, Proceedings Notes in Business Information Processing

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018.

XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice, and XP 2018 provided a playful and informal environment to learn and trigger discussions around its main theme – make, inspect, adapt.

The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: agile requirements; agile testing; agile transformation; scaling agile; human-centric agile; and continuous experimentation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Cosmic User Story Standard
Chapter 2. Improving Mockup-Based Requirement Specification with End-User Annotations
Chapter 3. Combining STPA and BDD for Safety Analysis and Verification in Agile Development: A Controlled Experiment
Chapter 4. Software Tester, We Want to Hire You! an Analysis of the Demand for Soft Skills
Chapter 5. Developers’ Initial Perceptions on TDD Practice: A Thematic Analysis with Distinct Domains and Languages
Chapter 6. Myths and Facts About Static Application Security Testing Tools: An Action Research at Telenor Digital
Chapter 7. Automated Acceptance Tests as Software Requirements: An Experiment to Compare the Applicability of Fit Tables and Gherkin Language
Chapter 8. Interface Problems of Agile in a Non-agile Environment
Chapter 9. Enterprise Agility: Why Is Transformation
Chapter 10. Technical and Organizational Agile Practices: A Latin-American Survey
Chapter 11. Agile Software Development – Adoption and Maturity: An Activity Theory Perspective
Chapter 12. Do Agile Methods Work for Large Software Projects?
Chapter 13. Learning in the Large – An Exploratory Study of Retrospectives in Large-Scale Agile Development
Chapter 14. Reporting in Agile Portfolio Management: Routines, Metrics and Artefacts to Maintain an Effective Oversight
Chapter 15. Inter-team Coordination in Large-Scale Agile Development: A Case Study of Three Enabling Mechanisms
Chapter 16. Supporting Large-Scale Agile Development with Domain-Driven Design
Chapter 17. Towards Agile Scalability Engineering
Chapter 18. Stress in Agile Software Development: Practices and Outcomes
Chapter 19. Teamwork Quality and Team Performance: Exploring Differences Between Small and Large Agile Projects
Chapter 20. Challenges and Strategies for Undertaking Continuous Experimentation to Embedded Systems: Industry and Research Perspectives
Chapter 21. ICOs Overview: Should Investors Choose an ICO Developed with the Lean Startup Methodology?