Metodologias agiles

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Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky

Agile Software Engineering

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Orit Hazzan, BSc, MSc, PhD, MBA Department of Education in Technology and Science Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, IsraelYael Dubinsky, BSc, MSc, PhD Department of Computer Science Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel

Series editor  Ian Mackie, Ecole Polytechnique, France and University of Sussex, UK Advisory board Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, UK Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK Hanne RiisNielson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University, USA Iain Stewart, University of Durham, UK David Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science ISSN 1863-7310 ISBN: 978-1-84800-198-5 e-ISBN: 978-1-84800-199-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-199-2
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OritHazzan dedicates this book to her agile family--Shimon, Yael and Dan Yael Dubinsky dedicates this book to her parents, Helen and Yaakov, life partner David, and lovely children Tal and Or

Preface

Overview and Goals
The agile approach for software development has been applied more and more extensively since the mid nineties of the 20th century. Though there are only about ten years of...