Quality Assurance in Agile: A Study towards Achieving Excellence

Abstract

Agile Methods are known to have built-in quality management system, however there are still challenges seen in the real life scenarios within the software organizations that are transitioning from traditional method to Agile development methods. Traditional Quality Assurance techniques are reporting based and rely on heavy weight inspection methods whereas Agile Quality Assurance techniques are built-in daily activities by teams. Research proposal here aims to study various challenges faced in terms of assuring quality in Agile, what are the key drivers or indicators of Quality in agile and proposing the framework to evaluate what aspects of Agile improve the quality of the product in terms of bug rates, development time and costs. Through this study we aim to provide some suggestions to help organizations overcome obstacles expected in adopting the agile method as software development tool and ensuring quality.