posted on 2012-05-31, 14:19authored byMing Huo, June Verner, Muhammad Ali Babar, Liming Zhu
Software quality is one of our most important
software concerns. Agile methods may produce
software faster but we also need to know how they
meet our quality requirements. In this paper we
compare the waterfall model with agile processes to
show how agile methods achieve software quality. We
also show how agile methods attain quality under time
pressure and in an unstable requirements environment,
i.e. we analyze agile software quality assurance. We
present a detailed waterfall model showing its
software quality support processes. We then show the
quality practices that agile methods have integrated
into their processes. This allows us to answer the
question can agile methods ensure the quality even
though they develop software faster and can handle
unstable requirements?