On The Development Of Agile Software Methodology Using Two Way Assessment

Abstract

To ensure quality, reliability and scalability of product software industry is swiftly moving towards Agile as this approach helps business developers to address the problem of unpredictability. Customers are relying on the functionality and accuracy that is provided by the software. The last decades of software development, focused on sequential and phased models like the Waterfall model, Spiral model, etc, today the focus is on iterative and incremental methods in form of Agile methods. World’s CMM level 5 companies are also using Agile methods to give a new edge to the software development. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to illustrate a two way assessment technique that can be adopted to infuse a continuous improvement in the software testing lifecycle. The two way assessment takes into consideration two things: The perspective of Management/ Developers is to highlight the importance of various testing attributes andworking on each of the attribute. Thus the ’Two-Fold Approach’ discussed in this paper is an attempt to go beyond the traditional methodology of measuring system effectiveness. It clearly emerges that agile methodology encourages better planning due to customer involvement and accommodates the desired changes easily.