Abstract
Open Source Software development often resembles Agile models. In this paper, we report about our experience in using SCRUM for the development of an Open Source Software Java tool. With this work, we aim at answering the following research questions: 1) is it possible to switch successfully to the SCRUM methodology in an ongoing Open Source Software development process? 2) is it possible to apply SCRUM when the developers are geographically distributed? 3) does SCRUM help improve the quality of the product and the productivity of the process? We answer to these questions by identifying a set of measures and by comparing the data we collected before and after the introduction of SCRUM. The results seem to show that SCRUM can be introduced and used in an ongoing geographically distributed Open Source Software process and that it helps control the development process better.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Schwaber, K., Beedle, M.: Agile Software Development with SCRUM. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (2001)
Beck, K., Beedle, M., van Bennekum, A., Cockburn, A., Cunningham, W., Fowler, M., Grenning, J., Highsmith, J., Hunt, A., Jeffries, R., Kern, J., Marick, B.C., Martin, R., Mellor, S., Schwaber, K., Sutherland, J., Thomas, D.: Manifesto for Agile Software Development, http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
Crisà, A.F., del Bianco, V., Lavazza, L.: A tool for the measurement, storage, and pre-elaboration of data supporting the release of public datasets. In: González-Barahona, J.M., Conklin, M., Robles, G. (eds.) Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2006), Como (2006)
Chidamber, S.R., Kemerer, C.F.: A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 20, 476–493 (1994)
McCabe, T.J.: A complexity measure. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2, 300–320 (1976)
Boehm, B.W.: A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement. IEEE Computer 21(5), 61–72 (1988)
Northover, M., Northover, A., Gruner, S., Kourie, D.G., Boake, A.: Agile software development: A contemporary philosophical perspective. In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 226, pp. 106–115 (2007)
Raymond, E.S.: The Cathedral & the Bazaar. O’Reilly, Sebastopol (2001)
Sutherland, J.: Agile can scale: Inventing and reinventing scrum in five companies. Cutter IT Journal. Cutter Information Corp. 14(12) (December 2001)
Düring, B.: Sprint Driven Development: Agile Methodologies in a Distributed Open Source Project (PyPy). In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds.) XP 2006. LNCS, vol. 4044, pp. 191–195. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Mann, C., Maurer, F.: A Case Study on the Impact of SCRUM on Overtime and Customer Satisfaction. In: Agile Development Conference, pp. 70–79 (2005)
Rising, L., Janoff, N.S.: The SCRUM Software Development Process for Small Teams. IEEE Software 17(4), 26–32 (2000)
Feller, J., Fitzgerald, B.: A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm. In: Proceedings of the twenty first International Conference on Information systems (2000)
Ghezzi, C., Jazayeri, M., Mandrioli, D.: Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2nd edn. Pearson, Prentice Hall (2002)
Northover, M., Northover, A., Gruner, S., Kourie, D.G., Boake, A.: Agile software development: A contemporary philosophical perspective. In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 226, pp. 106–115 (2007)
Mockus, R., Fielding, T., Herbsleb, J.: A case study of OSS development: the apache server. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 263–272 (2000)
O’Reilly, T.: Lessons from Open-Source Software development. Communications of the ACM 42(4) (1999)
QualiPSo portal, http://www.qualipso.eu (Accessed: December 2009)
Checkstyle tool download, http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ (Accessed: December 2009)
PMD tool download, http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ (Accessed: December 2009)
Sahraoui, H.A., Godin, R., Miceli, T.: Can Metrics Help Bridging the Gap Between the Improvement of OO Design Quality and Its Automation? In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lavazza, L., Morasca, S., Taibi, D., Tosi, D. (2010). Applying SCRUM in an OSS Development Process: An Empirical Evaluation. In: Sillitti, A., Martin, A., Wang, X., Whitworth, E. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13054-0_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13054-0_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-13053-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-13054-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)