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Security Assurance in Agile Software Development Methods: An Analysis of Scrum, XP and Kanban




AuthorsKalle Rindell, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Ville Leppänen

EditorsMichael Felderer, Riccardo Scandariato

Publication year2019

Book title Exploring Security in Software Architecture and Design

First page 47

Last page68

Number of pages22

ISBN978-1-5225-6313-6

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6313-6.ch003


Abstract

Agile software development was introduced in the beginning of the 2000s to increase the visibility and efficiency software projects. Since then it has become as an industry standard. However, fitting sequential security engineering development models into iterative and incremental development practices in agile methods has caused difficulties in defining, implementing, and verifying the security properties of software. In addition, agile methods have also been criticized for decreased quality of documentation, resulting in decreased security assurance necessary for regulative purposes and security measurement. As a consequence, lack of security assurance can complicate security incident management, thus increasing the software's potential lifetime cost. This chapter clarifies the requirements for software security assurance by using an evaluation framework to analyze the compatibility of established agile security development methods: XP, Scrum, and Kanban. The results show that the agile methods are not inherently incompatible with security engineering requirements.



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