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NDT-Agile: An Agile, CMMI-Compatible Framework for Web Engineering

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2017)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 770))

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Agile and Web Engineering show important synergies, making Agile a common approach for Web development. Besides, several initiatives emerged to support CMMI-DEV within Agile, where CMMI-DEV aims to improve organizations’ software development process. An approach integrating Agile, Web and CMMI-DEV might be of great value, since they might allow Web development teams to use Agile, as well as progress through CMMI-DEV maturity levels. For this purpose, we developed NDT-Agile, an NDT-based Agile framework to achieve the goals of CMMI-DEV in the context of Web Engineering. It was developed by mapping Agile practices to the goals of CMMI-DEV so as to identify existing gaps. Next, we searched for suitable Agile practices to cover the gaps and integrated them into a framework called NDT-Agile, which was validated using an expert-judgment technique: the Delphi method. This paper describes how we integrated Agile and CMMI-DEV into a Web Engineering framework. Besides, it also analyzes its initial evaluation, together with a first tool developed to support it.

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This research has been supported by the MeGUS project (TIN2013-46928-C3-3-R), the Pololas project (TIN2016-76956-C3-2-R) and by the SoftPLM Network (TIN2015-71938-REDT) of the Spanish the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. We would also like to thank Dr. Diego Nieto Lugilde, Dr. Pedro Antonio García and Dr. Diego Torrecilla de Amo, from the University of Granada. Finally, we would like to show our gratitude to all experts participating in the Delphi method for their useful contributions.

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    Carlos J. Torrecilla-Salinas, Tatiana Guardia, Manuel Mejías & Jorge Sedeño

  2. Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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Torrecilla-Salinas, C.J., Guardia, T., De Troyer, O., Mejías, M., Sedeño, J. (2017). NDT-Agile: An Agile, CMMI-Compatible Framework for Web Engineering. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 770. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_1

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