Introducing Script as a Software Design Tool for Agile Software Development Methodology

Abstract

Nowadays, agile software development methodology has acquitted attention in software development industry. Agile practices have been denoted as popular choice for software development teams due to its flexibility and ease of use. In software industry, there are many technical descriptions for applying agile practices in software development. Although these diversities could allow a company to tailor its own agile practices, diversities could lead to lack of standardization that could allow collaboration between development teams. In this paper, a well know technique for knowledge representation which is script has been introduced as a tool for implementing agile practices. Script has been used for long time in knowledge engineering domain for representing unstructured knowledge and transfer it to structure knowledge representation. Two illustrative examples have been used in this paper. First definition of script and its part has been mentioned. Second, the first example is used to describe the usage of script as knowledge representation tool. Third, the second example is used to explain how script could be a useful tool for agile practices in agile software development methodology. Finally, the benefits of the proposed tool and the future direction has been explained.