Combining Services Computing Systems Engineering Framework and Scrum for Agile Development

Abstract

Services Computing Systems Engineering (SCSE) Framework is an engineering framework or methodology for building service computing systems based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Flexibility and ease of making changes are the advantages offered by SOA. It is also provided by the software development process with the Scrum framework in Agile software development. By using the SCSE framework, the service computing development process runs sequentially from the beginning to the end of the process in one cycle timeline. These guides are excellent for developing systems with obvious requirements and are released in one cycle. However, for services computing that requires fast release, following the guidelines in the SCSE Framework is hard to achieve. Modifications are needed to use the framework in agile system development so that development can be carried out quickly and with multiple releases. This research will be a starting point for combining SCSE with Scrum to produce a new framework that takes advantage of both. The main objective of this research is to determine how SCSE can be used in an agile development environment to produce a service computing system with fast delivery. The research methodology we use is Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM). A system development project has been tested using the proposed framework for one initial release with good results. A survey with the quantitative result has also been conducted among several stakeholders in system development to evaluate the proposed framework. As a result of this study, a framework is proposed to guide system development in an agile manner for creating services computing systems.