Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESEAgile quality assurance of the corporate software
In a joint project with Volkswagen, Fraunhofer IESE worked on an agile approach for quality assurance of the group software.
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Reference Project: VOLKSWAGEN AG
The Konzern Grundanforderungen Software (KGAS; Group Basic Requirements Software) define for the entire Volkswagen Group requirements that must be observed in the development of software. The desire for agile development goes hand in hand with the question of compliance with the KGAS. For this reason, Fraunhofer IESE investigated for the Group Software Quality Assurance department of Volkswagen AG how fulfillment of the KGAS is possible with agile methods.
In consultation with the KGAS managers and agile experts from VW, a mapping of agile practices to KGAS requirements was drawn up first. The final result was a Pocket Guide, which, for a selection of requirements, provides an overview of which requirements are independent of the approach used and which are supported by agile practices. For these supported requirements, an agile implementation was demonstrated.