Abstract
High quality assurance is a fundamental element of every engineering process and is considered to be one of the more difficult things to achieve and sustain. Since high quality is also a basic concern of software engineering, there are values and practices that support the assurance of high quality software products and processes. However, these are not sufficient, and in many cases, software products lack the required quality. In this chapter, among other issues, we analyze why this happens. We also describe how quality is perceived using the agile approach, starting withvalues values and practicespractices that support and control the process quality, such as customer collaboration and the planning of a typical agile software development process. We continue with values and practices that support the product quality, for example, refactoring and the feedback gained by exhaustive testing and test automation. Finally, we focus on the test driven development Test Driven Development (TDD)TDD practice, analyze its acceptance by software developers and present a way to measure and control TDD processes.
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The Metrics software, for example, provides a plug-in that automatically calculates McCabe cyclomatic complexity (http://metrics.sourceforge.net/).
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Hazzan, O., Dubinsky, Y. (2008). Quality. In: Agile Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-198-5_6
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