SUPORTE AO DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SOFTWARE BASEADO EM METODOLOGIAS ÁGEIS E FERRAMENTAS CASE EM NUVEM

Abstract

This work presents a research conducted in the context of an university extension laboratory of the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo (Ifes) - Brazil, where software applications have been developed for small and medium-sized enterprises. The main difficulties found in the laboratory concern (i) to the deployment of new units of the lab in the various campi of Ifes; (ii) to the conduction of distributed software development projects (among the existing units); (iii) and even to the conduction of software projects in unit from a stardardized way. These difficulties are consequence of the lack of a methodological apparatus and of an integrated set of tools that can be easily procvided/accessed. Thus, this research proposes an integrated framework of CASE tools in cloud based on a software process that aligns practices and agil metodologies, namely: Scrum and XP (Extremming Programming). Also, this work discusses issues related to adoption of CASE tools considering the current tendency in using such tools in cloud. We believe that the solutions proposed and the discussions addressed in this work can be useful in other similar contexts, where the focus in on adopting CASE tools for supporting the software development process.