Print Email Facebook Twitter Improving Code Quality in Agile Software Development Title Improving Code Quality in Agile Software Development Author Krombeen, Lars (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; TU Delft Software Engineering) Contributor Hermans, Felienne (mentor) van Deursen, Arie (graduation committee) Brinkman, Willem-Paul (graduation committee) Fraser, Desiree (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science Date 2018-10-30 Abstract Agile software development is a popular approach for developing software. Another important topic of research in software engineering is code quality. Unfortunately, a minimal amount of extensive research has been done on how these two influence each other. The goal of this study is therefore to explore the connection between these two using a qualitative approach. To understand this connection we will use Grounded Theory as a qualitative methodology to interview 20 participants across two organisations. In doing so we present a detailed description of Grounded Theory implementation and the results we obtain from it. The results are used to explore the relation between code quality and agile software development. The results show that team empowerment is the core relation between them. The results are structured in a theory which establishes four core values for achieving team empowerment, conditions that apply to these values and which practices can be applied to stimulate the conditions. The outcomes of the study are further verified using an online questionnaire across multiple countries. The theory will be expanded further to establish theoretical links between Agile best practices and code quality metrics to give teams concrete solutions to improve their code quality scores. Subject Empirical ResearchSoftware EngineeringGrounded TheoryCode QualityAgile Software DevelopmentTeam Empowerment To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dfc0360e-283a-4534-96c4-6ed39c16f2a4 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Lars Krombeen Files PDF thesis.pdf 2.36 MB PDF poster_v3.pdf 226.14 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dfc0360e-283a-4534-96c4-6ed39c16f2a4/datastream/OBJ1/view