Abstract
In recent years, many development paradigms have been proposed, in order to make software development successful. These paradigms have to be chosen in consideration of projects' characteristics. Nowadays, we can usually employ these conventional software development methods for large-size software development. On the other hand, the agile software development method proposed for small-size software development has many problems which should be solved, and technological researches related to software quality have just started. In this paper, we propose some metrics which can evaluate the reliability/quality of software systems developed by the agile software development method. Furthermore, applying these metrics to several plausible software reliability growth models and showing numerical analysis results, we discuss applicability of existing quantitative software reliability assessment methods.
