BODJE N'Kauh Nathan-Regis¹ and G.M Nasira², ¹Christ University, India and ²Chikkanna Govt. Arts College, India

Agile software processes, such as extreme programming (XP), Scrum, Lean, etc., rely on best practices that are considered to improve software development quality. It can be said that best practices aim to induce software quality assurance (SQA) into the project at hand. Some researchers of agile methods claim that because of the very nature of such methods, quality in agile software projects should be a natural outcome of the applied method. As a consequence, agile quality is expected to be more or less embedded in the agile software processes. Many reports support and evangelize the advantages of agile methods with respect to quality assurance, Is it so ? An ambitious goal of this paper is to present work done to understand how quality is or should be handled. This paper as all survey papers attempt to summarize and organizes research results in the field of software engineering, precisely for the topic of agile methods related to software quality.

Agile methods, quality assurance, software life cycle, software metrics