Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes

Optimal management of software quality demands for appropriate integration of quality management activities into the whole software (engineering) life-cycle. However, despite the competitive advantage of ensuring and maintaining high quality levels, software development methodologies still prove to offer little support to the integration and management of quality. This is especially true for, and essential in, agile software development processes and the more recent trends towards rapid and continuous software development. The premise is that faster and more frequent release cycles should not compromise quality. The third edition of the International Workshop on Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes (QuASD 2019) continues the success of previous editions aiming to exchange challenges, experiences, and solutions among researchers and practitioners to bring agile and rapid software development processes a step further to seamless integrating quality management activities into their practices. In this way, we expect to foster the exchange of ideas between researchers and industry and consolidate a research agenda and collaborations.