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Preferred Tools for Agile Development: A Sociocultural Perspective

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Tools are of paramount importance in supporting software development methods, Agile ones included. In this paper, we aim to identify the most popular tools used by the Agile developers community, studying whether there are shared opinions or there are discrepancies, that could be related to cultural or geographical differences. The study is based on the DESMET approach, enhanced with some additional considerations.

Results show that Agilists are well integrated and tend to use the same tools even if some regional differences exist. Moreover, they prefer well-known and established products; interestingly, planning tools are generally regarded as unsatisfactory. We list, classify, and discuss the most popular tools.

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    https://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-09/the-only-agile-tools-youll-ever-need.

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    https://stateofagile.versionone.com/.

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  1. DISI, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Ciancarini & Marcello Missiroli

  2. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russian Federation

    Paolo Ciancarini & Alberto Sillitti

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Ciancarini, P., Missiroli, M., Sillitti, A. (2019). Preferred Tools for Agile Development: A Sociocultural Perspective. In: Mazzara, M., Bruel, JM., Meyer, B., Petrenko, A. (eds) Software Technology: Methods and Tools. TOOLS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29852-4_3

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