Research Trends in Agile Software Development

Abstract

Agile software development (ASD) is a popular research area that attracts the attention of the software development industry as well. Many studies have been conducted to explore the issues related to the ASD domain. Research is still very vigorous in this domain as there is continuous interest from companies to adopt ASD in their software development processes. Moreover, with the remote work setting that the pandemic forces, software companies search for new methods and approaches to manage their projects effectively and successfully. Hence, this study explores the research conducted in the last two decades in the ASD domain through text mining to reveal the trending topics that get attention from scholars. According to the results of this study, eight topics are identified for the research in ASD domain. Among those, topics of Team Communication, Agile Development, and Software Development Process are the most popular, the most funded, and the most cited topics respectively.