Experience-Based Guidelines for Effective Planning & Management of Software Integration & Test Activities in the Agile/DevSecOps Environment

Agile teams need to be ready to fail and try again. The Integration and Test (I&S) team is integral to this process because they provide the benchmarks against which DevSecOps development teams measure their work products. The integration process for Agile features must be flexible enough to handle changing schedules and requirements, while continuing to drive the program teams toward the ultimate goal of a successful program sell-off activity. Throughout the life of the contract the I&T team must continually integrate new features; work with the hardware & software teams to ensure product quality is preserved; and regression test the system at each software build release to ensure product stability. As the defense industry continues maturing its applications of the Agile and Devsecops philosophies, this family of I&T activities must be defined, managed, and executed within these frameworks.This presentation discusses in detail the integration of new features activity in I&T. Provided are practical. proven, experience-based guidelines for planning and managing this effort in the Agile framework. These guidelines derive from the successful integration of new capabilities into an unclassified foreign system, on a program employing DevSecOps. Information presented in this lecture is recommended to individuals interested in, or tasked with, this responsibility.