Anyone? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Selene Uras Date: Dec 24, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: survey about the use of agile practices To: s.uras@diee.unica.it Dear project manager/developer I am conducting at the University of Cagliari, under the supervision of prof. Michele Marchesi, a survey about the use of agile practices in open source successful projects. I would really appreciate if you can devote 5 mins. of your time, answering the following questionnaire directly in the "Reply" mail to me. Thanking in advance, Selene Uras 1. Project management: - Do you use fixed (time-boxed) iterations? Y/N How many days do they last? ___ - Do you plan development by gathering a list of features, and then assign them to an iteration? Y/N Since when? Since the start of the project / Since ___ years. - Are users actively involved in requirements gathering and in project management? Y/N 2. Testing: - Has the project an automatic unit test suite? Y/N Which one? ___________ - If Yes, what is the percentage of code covered by tests? ___ % - Do you use automatic acceptance tests? Y/N - Since when have you been using automatic tests? Since the start of the project / Since ___ years. 3. Refactoring: - Do you practice explicit code refactoring? Y/N - What is the percentage of developing effort for refactoring? ___% - Since when have you been using refactoring? Since the start of the project / Since ___ years. 4. Integration and releases: - How long does it take to produce the executable code starting from source code? ____ - Do you have a "working version" of the code, which is often updated by developers who add their code and run tests? Y/N 5. General: - Can you mention some other agile practices you are using in the project? For each of them, since when has it been used? - Practice: __________________________ Used since: ______ - Practice: __________________________ Used since: ______ - .... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)