Today we must deal with shorter time-to-market, increasing complexity and more agility while keeping quality and other key system properties high.

To address these challenges the right timing in testing is critical but often not explicitly tackled. Therefore, in this interactive tutorial we reflect on our current approach on timing in testing, investigate and discuss needed strategies, tactics, and practices in different areas, and share experiences and lessons learned to improve timing in…

This tutorial introduces to agile requirements engineering. The half day delivers practical guidance from our projects across different industries. While being based on the IREB agile RE primer curriculum, it has more practical focus and avoids agile basics and theory. Yet, participants are eligible to IREB certification. We give practical tips for designing agile requirements processes. Attendees will learn how to combine needs of systematic requirements engineering with agile principles.…

Functional programming is the future of software development. As software gets ever more complex, unintended side effects flourish - you push on one side, and something unexpected squirts out the other. Functional programming cuts down on complexity through high-level abstractions and avoids unintended side effects through pure functions. The result is simple and elegant code that captures the essence of the problem you're trying to solve. Fortunately, functional programming is easy to learn,…

Security is an important topic, especially when developing software. But it is seen as complex and is holding everyone back, often put off until the end and delegated to an external person or group.

To be effective security needs to be a continuous part of the development process and to involve the whole team.

Security games can help to achieve this. They involve the whole team and facilitate the learning and application of security principles. They offer a way to integrate expert knowledge and…

Traditionally, requirements were used as a means to communicate between customers and development organizations. Unfortunately, requirements suffer from many limitations.

An alternative approach is to focus on outcomes and to use value modeling as a mechanism to quantitatively define the desired outcomes. This value model can then be used for experimentation by humans using DevOps and A/B testing or using machine learning models for automated experimentation.

The tutorial provides introduction of…

Do you know that some forecasts project that in 2030 IT will account for 21% of all energy consumption? So, if we do not change the way we implement software, we will contribute to the increase in the carbon footprint. This means it is about time to take another look at how agile development can help decrease energy consumption.

In this workshop, we'll explore how the agile principles can guide us to more sustainability, and we'll provide you with concrete ideas for increasing sustainability in…

There are several architecture models with prescribed views and notations. The Keep It Short & Simple architecture model is different. We create pieces of documentation iff they benefit stakeholders. We do so using drawing tools, not modeling tools. We say no to BDUF and yes to Important Design Up Front. We follow 7 tips for creating diagrams that are expressive, not ambiguous, and help you to successfully understand and evolve them, and build a system from them. We complement the design…