JISAR

Journal of Information Systems Applied Research

Volume13

V13 N1 Pages 4-11

Mar 2020


An Empirical Study of Post-Production Software Code Quality When Employing the Agile Rapid Delivery Methodology


Laura Poe
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA USA

Elaine Seeman
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC USA

Abstract: In response to the business need to adopt a faster delivery model to stay ahead in the marketplace, organizations implementing Agile practices expect to deliver projects faster and with higher quality. Widespread assumptions of increased code quality for software implementations using Agile require empirical investigation. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the speed of software delivery with emphasis on the quality of the software code. The outcome of this research will assist business leaders with making informed decisions on selecting a successful project methodology. While numerous factors can impact project delivery, this case study of DigiTek LLC evaluates four of their software development project teams’ software delivery hours to the number of defects encountered during development and after implementation to production. Teams using the traditional Waterfall methodology had slightly higher production code quality when compared to teams using the Agile methodology across like software development products. Companies planning to adopt Agile should evaluate the impacts to code quality and consider other factors as part of the decision to transition.

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Recommended Citation: Poe, L., Seeman, E., (2020). An Empirical Study of Post-Production Software Code Quality When Employing the Agile Rapid Delivery Methodology. Journal of Information Systems Applied Research13(1) pp 4-11. http://JISAR.org/2020-1/ ISSN : 1946 - 1836. A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of CONISAR 2019