Agile Development Software

Agile development tools support methodologies like Extreme Programming and Scrum. These aid developers in focusing on quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements.

Agile development software advocates very short development cycles or “sprints” to improve productivity. Additionally, agile methodology allows for feedback at every stage of the process from either the customer/user, or a user representative like a product-marketing manager whose job it is to understand market requirements in detail.

AnOther element of the agile process enabled by agile development software is pair programming. This means developers work together in teams of two and conduct very extensive code reviews and unit testing. One fundamental guideline throughout the process is that code should be as simple as possible to deliver the required functionality and features.

Agile development products are designed to support the agile process with varying sets of features, which often include:

Agile Development Software approaches software development that first emerged in the late 1980s as a lightweight development methodology to replace the waterfall approach. Waterfall had dominated product development projects until that time.

The well-known problem with waterfall methodologies is that they are sequential (complete one thing before moving on to the next step). They can run for a long time before any feedback is allowed to enter the process from outside. The result is often extremely long development cycles that can result in products that are substantially different from what was originally wanted. This can often have serious usability shortcomings, which cannot easily be fixed.

The early creators of agile methodologies outline the main principles in a manifesto in 2001. The 12 principles are a clear summary of the approach beginning with: