Knowledge Management in Agile Testing Teams: a Survey.
Glauco Antonio Ruiz, Patrick Rodrigo da Silva, Érica Ferreira de Souza, Katia Romero Felizardo, Giovani Volnei Meinerz, Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar · Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research) · 2018
Context: Software testing activities are considered as knowledge intensive and therefore Knowledge Management (K M) principles and techniques can be applied to efficiently manage the knowledge generated. In agile development, agile testing practices can benefit the companies in terms of K M, specially in the knowledge sharing. However, there is still little empirical knowledge about the state of practice as well as contemporary problems with respect to agile testing and K M . Objective: This study aims to understand how knowledge is shared in Brazilian companies that incorporated agile methodology. Method: In order to create an empirical basis on the aspects of agile testing and K M . a survey was conducted w i t h professionals working with agile tests. The survey received 150 replies. Results: The results with more highlight are: Knowledge is, in fact, shared into the team (89.3%), informal communication is most used (52%), tools are used to share knowledge, the future decisions are based on past problems (88%) and the success stories are stored by team (70.9%). Conclusion: Knowledge is recognized as extremely important in any area. Its extraction and publication are of fundamental importance, as can be proven in this research. Agile practices support companies to make use of KM principles.