Um método de desenvolvimento de software combinando linha de produto de software com scrum: estudo de caso sistema de navegação de TV

Abstract

The industry, to reach more consumers, has adopted the mass customization concept to develop several and different products sharing the same components, in other words, launch similar products attending specific requirements from several market segments. The methodology used to develop software for mass customization is the software product line engineering (SPLE) that uses component reuse concepts in an efficient and systematic way, resulting on several software products sharing a common platform, which are part of a software product line (SPL). Scrum is an agile process that can be used to manage and control complex product and software development by using iterative and incremental practices. It was invented to rapidly drive new products to market, and was designed for hyper productive teams where productivity increases by 5-10 times over industry averages and many collocated teams have achieved this effect. Both, SPLE and Scrum, are designed to develop software products in a productive way, but SPLE has adopted the systematic reuse as its main principle, and Scrum has adopted the self-management teams and agile manifesto. This M.Sc. thesis shows the ScrumPL, a method combining both SPLE and Scrum methodologies based on their input and output needs and the Scrum lifecycle. This process was applied to develop a TV navigation system SPL, with one of the digital TV standards (ISDB-TB, DVB or ATSC), one language, for low-end, mid-end or high-end set-top-box market segment.