The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and
adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that …

Context Software industry has widely adopted Agile software development methods. Agile
literature proposes a few key metrics but little is known of the actual metrics use in Agile …

DevOps has been identified as an important aspect in the continuous deployment paradigm
in practitioner communities and academic research circles. However, little has been …

This report is the result of a Ph. D. course on survey methodology in software engineering
research at the Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden. All chapters …

Scrum remains the most popular agile software development method implementation for a
variety of reasons; one important motive is to improve software quality. Yet many …

The relationship between customers and suppliers remains a challenge in agile software
development. Two trends seek to improve this relationship, the increased focus on value …

Context Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor that is used to communicate the consequences of
poor software development practices to non-technical stakeholders. In recent years, it has …

DevOps is a predominant phenomenon in the web domain. Its two core principles
emphasize collaboration between software development and operations, and the use of …

Over the last two decades, agile methods have transformed and brought unique changes to
software development practice by strongly emphasizing team collaboration, customer …

Context Practitioners and researchers often claim that agile methods have moved into the
mainstream for the last few years. To support this claim they refer to recent industrial surveys …