Framework for the quality assessment of agile processes

Abstract

The software industry requires high-quality products and services, which is achieved through the application of internationally recognized quality models and methodologies. However, these models in small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are very difficult to implement due to high cost, long time and specialized human resources.
Therefore, it is necessary to establish strategies that allow the automation of the software development cycle, in such a way as to promote cost reduction and efficiency in the processes for obtaining final products. In this case, the agile philosophy turns out to be the most appropriate approach for current development environments, and they are positioned as an alternative to development processes with high cost in documentation and excessively long processes.
With the aim of facilitating the adoption of agile practices in SMEs that ensure the quality of software development processes, the Agile Quality Framework (AQF) has been presented, a framework whose proposal integrates the design and development of a model that allows evaluating quality in processes agile software, and a web application that will allow the monitoring of agile software projects together with the systematic evaluation of the quality of the development process.
AQF emerges as a platform that contributes to software development teams from the quality assessment in agile projects, considering the development process as an object of measurement regardless of the agile approach selected.