Open AccessDesign of A Multi-Agent System Architecture for the Scrum Methodology
Author(s) -
Vishwaduthsingh Gunga,
Somveer Kishnah,
Sameerchand Pudaruth
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of software engineering and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2221
pISSN - 0975-9018
DOI - 10.5121/ijsea.2013.4401
Subject(s) - scrum , architecture , computer science , systems engineering , software engineering , engineering , computer architecture , operating system , software , software development , geography , archaeology
The objective of this paper is to design a multi-agent system architecture for the Scrum methodology.Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for software development which is flexible, adaptable andhighly productive. An agent is a system situated within and a part of an environment that senses theenvironment and acts on it, over time, in pursuit of its own agenda and so as to effect what it senses in thefuture (Franklin and Graesser, 1996). To our knowledge, this is first attempt to include software agents inthe Scrum framework. Furthermore, our design covers all the stages of software development. Alternativeapproaches were only restricted to the analysis and design phases. This Multi-Agent System (MAS)Architecture for Scrum acts as a design blueprint and a baseline architecture that can be realised into aphysical implementation by using an appropriate agent development framework. The development of anexperimental prototype for the proposed MAS Architecture is in progress. It is expected that this tool willprovide support to the development team who will no longer be expected to report, update and managenon-core activities daily