An Empirical Study on the Issues of Traditional Defect Life Cycle in Agile Model

Abstract

In an Agile workflow, work is divided into sprints and each sprint has a particular activity which needs to be completed. Agile aligns development activity with customer’s requirement. It is an iterative progress methodology, where requirements develop through association between the customer and self-organizing teams. As there is less documentation available in agile methodology, product team, development team and testing team need to work in close association to develop the quality software with minimum defect leakage. In this paper, we analyze empirically the defect life cycle for agile model to determine the correct phases of a defect in the agile workflow. Results obtained may help team to optimize the time and develop the quality software with minimum defect leakage.

Keywords: Agile, Defect, Defect Life Cycle