EXTREME PROGRAMMING VS SCRUM: A COMPARISON OF AGILE MODELS

Abstract

For past couple of years agile software methods have been quite popular among the researchers. Agile models are known as light weight in contrast with conventional software development methodologies, due to their casual, versatile and adaptable style. Agile frameworks became heartily accepted by the software society in view of their concentration towards timely software conveyance, product quality and user satisfaction. For the fulfillment of requirements and needs of different software projects multiple agile frameworks are present to choose from. Out of these models Extreme Programming and Scrum are the most recognizable and generally utilized frameworks. This research contributes by investigating these two frameworks thoroughly. This paper conducts a comprehensive comparison between Scrum and Extreme programming to track down their commonalities, dissimilarities and investigate those attributes which complement each other.