System Testing in Agile SW Development of the Electronic Components Based on Software from the Automotive Industry

We presented in this paper a methodology for reducing the number of open defects for Automotive Software development when Agile methodology is used. The exemplified method is used to increase the system testing awareness into the Agile teams. In order to have fast feedback and to solve the defects discovered during development as soon as possible, we showed the benefits of implementing system test activities on team level. We presented comparative results for implementing system test activities outside and inside the Agile team. We could easily identify that executing the system test activities inside the Agile team improved significantly the delivered products and reduced the development time, effort and costs.