Author : Veerapaneni Esther Jyothi and K. Nageswara Rao

Even though the release cycles are speeder with agile software development there can be delays with respect to the insufficient availability of underlying platforms. But when agile using the cloud can overcome the delays and greatly enhance the speed of continuous integration and release cycles because of the large number of resources availability in the cloud. Effective implementation of agile practices is much more achievable with the collaboration of cloud. Developing software on time and within budget is not good enough if the product developed is full of defects and customers today are demanding higher quality software than ever before. Now-a-days the software market is mature enough and users want to be assured of quality. There are several benefits and opportunities to maximize the agility of the software development process and practices with the help of cloud computing.

Keywords: Agile, Cloud computing, services, staging and production.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)