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User Experience (UX) has been a buzzword in agile literature in recent years. However, often UX remains as a vague concept and it may be hard to understand the very nature of it in the context of agile software development. This paper explores the multifaceted UX literature, emphasizes the multi-dimensional nature of the concept and organizes the current state-of-the-art knowledge. As a starting point to better understand the contemporary meaning of UX assigned by practitioners, we selected four UX blogs and performed an analysis using a framework derived from the literature review. The preliminary results show that the practitioners more often focus on interaction between product and user and view UX from design perspective predominantly. While the economical perspective receives little attention in literature, it is evident in practitioners writings. Our study opens up a promising line of request of the contemporary meaning of UX in practice.
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Context: The increasing popularity of JavaScript (JS) has lead to a variety of frameworks that aim to help developers to address programming tasks. However, the number of JS Frameworks (JSF) has risen rapidly to thousands and more. It is difficult for practitioners to identify the frameworks that best fit to their needs and to develop new frameworks that fit such needs. Existing research has focused in proposing software metrics for the frameworks, which do not carry a high value to practitioners. While benchmarks, technical reports, and experts' opinions are available, they suffer the same issue that they do not carry much value. In particular, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the processes and reasons that drive developers towards the choice. Objective: This paper explores the human aspects of software development behind the decision-making process that leads to a choice of a JSF. Method: We conducted a qualitative interpretive study, following the grounded theory data analysis methodology. We interviewed 18 participants who are decision makers in their companies or entrepreneurs, or are able to motivate the JSF decision-making process. Results: We offer a model of factors that are desirable to be found in a JSF and a representation of the decision makers involved in the frameworks selection. The factors are usability (attractiveness, learnability, understandability), cost, efficiency (performance, size), and functionality (automatisation, extensibility, flexibility, isolation, modularity, suitability, updated). These factors are evaluated by a combination of four possible decision makers, which are customer, developer, team, and team leader. Conclusion: Our model contributes to the body of knowledge related to the decision-making process when selecting a JSF. As a practical implication, we believe that our model is useful for (1) Web developers and (2) JSF developers.
Agile - denoting "the quality of being agile, readiness for motion, nimbleness, activity, dexterity in motion" - software development methods are attempting to offer an answer to the eager business community asking for lighter weight along with faster and nimbler software development processes. This is especially the case with the rapidly growing and volatile Internet software industry as well as for the emerging mobile application environment. The new agile methods have evoked substantial amount of literature and debates. However, academic research on the subject is still scarce, as most of existing publications are written by practitioners or consultants. The aim of this publication is to begin filling this gap by systematically reviewing the existing literature on agile software development methodologies. This publication has three purposes. First, it proposes a definition and a classification of agile software development approaches. Second, it analyses ten software development methods that can be characterized as being "agile" against the defined criterion. Third, it compares these methods and highlights their similarities and differences. Based on this analysis, future research needs are identified and discussed.
[Context] Advancement in technologies, popularity of small-batch manufacturing and the recent trend of investing in hardware startups are among the factors leading to the rise of hardware startups nowadays. It is essential for hardware startups, companies that involve both software and hardware development, to be not only agile to develop their business but also efficient to develop the right products. [Objective] We investigate how hardware startups achieve agility when developing their products in early stages. [Methods] A qualitative research is conducted with data from 20 hardware startups. [Result] Preliminary results show that agile development is known to hardware entrepreneurs, however it is limitedly adopted. We also found four categories of tactics: (1) strategy, (2) personnel, (3) artifact and (4) resource that enable hardware startups agile in their early stage business and product development. [Conclusions] Agile methodologies should be adopted with the consideration of specific features of hardware development, such as up-front design and vendor dependencies.
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