Agile Quality Requirements Elaboration: A Proposal and Evaluation

Wasim Alsaqaf, Maya Daneva, Roel Wieringa

2023

Abstract

The increasing success and user satisfaction of agile methods’ application in their original context (e.g. small co-located teams), motivated large organizations to utilize agile methods to deal with the rapidly changing markets and the distributed global workforce. Several studies have reported a variety of quality requirements (QRs) challenges in large-scale distributed agile (LSDA) context, so a recent empirical study has identified 15 QRs challenges in LSDA projects. This paper proposes an approach based on the concept of goal documentation to deal with the 15 QRs challenges reported previously. Our proposal, the Agile Quality Requirements Elaboration (AQRE) approach, introduces a new organizational role and a two-step process to elaborate high-level goals(s) into epics and user stories alongside QRs. The fitness and the usefulness of AQRE are evaluated by using a focus group with eight practitioners in the IT department of a large Dutch government organization. The evaluation indicated that 12 of the 15 QRs challenges could be mitigated by the AQRE. Our main contribution is two-fold, (i) we proposed a solution approach to deal with QRs challenges in LSDA context, and (ii) our evaluation provided empirical evidence about its usefulness in real-world context.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alsaqaf W., Daneva M. and Wieringa R. (2023). Agile Quality Requirements Elaboration: A Proposal and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-665-1, SciTePress, pages 668-679. DOI: 10.5220/0012143100003538

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft23,
author={Wasim Alsaqaf and Maya Daneva and Roel Wieringa},
title={Agile Quality Requirements Elaboration: A Proposal and Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT},
year={2023},
pages={668-679},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012143100003538},
isbn={978-989-758-665-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT
TI - Agile Quality Requirements Elaboration: A Proposal and Evaluation
SN - 978-989-758-665-1
AU - Alsaqaf W.
AU - Daneva M.
AU - Wieringa R.
PY - 2023
SP - 668
EP - 679
DO - 10.5220/0012143100003538
PB - SciTePress