{"title":"Condensing Architectural Knowledge from Unstructured Textual Media in Agile GSD Teams","authors":"Gilberto Borrego","doi":"10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.16","url":null,"abstract":"Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) is a reality, since nowadays software products are required to get into the market with more speed than before. This situation has pushed Global Software Development (GSD) companies to adopt lighter ways to develop software (Agile Software Development - ASD) to satisfy market demands. However, AGSD companies have encountered increased technical debt and architectural knowledge (AK) vaporization, mainly because the inherent differences between ASD and GSD, especially in documentation handling. This paper describes a research project in which it is proposed to exploit the AK that is recorded in unstructured textual electronic media (UTEM) generally used in AGSD, in order to decrease the problems of software evolution and maintenance, caused by a lack of adequate AK. Until now, the preliminary results of this research show that this approach could be feasible in AGSD environments.","PeriodicalId":207379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josiane Kroll, C. Q. Santos, L. Machado, S. Marczak, R. Prikladnicki
{"title":"Challenges and Lessons Learned on Preparing Graduate Students for GSE Work: Brazilians' Perceptions on a Multi-site Course Experience","authors":"Josiane Kroll, C. Q. Santos, L. Machado, S. Marczak, R. Prikladnicki","doi":"10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.17","url":null,"abstract":"Global Software Engineering (GSE) has became a part of the academic curricula in Computer Science courses. However, training students for GSE inherits the challenges of teaching Software Engineering (SE) in globally distributed environments. Furthermore, the most related experience in teaching graduate students reveals difficulties in developing GSE competencies. In this paper, we report the Brazilians' perceptions in performing SE activities in a globally distributed environment. We collected data from a collaborative project developed as part of the DOSE (Distributed and Outsourced Software Engineering) project. As a result, we identified 12 challenges and 7 lessons learned on preparing graduate students for GSE. Our results are helpful for practitioners and researchers in supporting new strategies for training students in the future.","PeriodicalId":207379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123524636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid-Computing Elements: A Multi-sourcing Model for Managing Crowdsourcing Software","authors":"Tarek Ali, M. Gheith, Eman S. Nasr, Perihan Elbaz","doi":"10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.19","url":null,"abstract":"The expression \"hybrid-computing elements\" denotes a category of computing elements where human-based and machine-based computing elements complement each other. The aim from such hybridity is to support human tasks. For example, TopCoder could be used to develop hybrid computing elements to be used in crowdsourcing software. Developing human-based computing elements is a more complex process than developing machine-based computing elements, as the task must be \"structured\" well as the Turing machines. This leads to the most difficult question of the \"unknown unknown\" requirements and having to deal with more macro-sociological factors on tasks than formal languages usually work with. In this paper, we model the hybridity using two types of computing elements: the humanbased, with whatever purposes the crowd envision, and the machine-based, which is used to develop it. We present a new framework to help provide such hybridity. It identifies the underlying building-blocks by using a biological metaphor. We call these building-blocks the \"genes\" of collective intelligence systems, the conditions under which each gene is useful, and the possibilities for combining and re-combining these genes to harness crowds effectively. Employing an analogy from biology where the operator relating the crowd and the parameter to be social phenomena is assumed to belong to semi-algebraic sets. We evaluated our framework by developing a business application through crowd work. The primary result was completed well for managing the crowdsourced software.","PeriodicalId":207379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)","volume":"107 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130055832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agile Practices for the Global Teaming Model","authors":"J. Noll, M. Razzak, Ita Richardson, Sarah Beecham","doi":"10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.20","url":null,"abstract":"The Global Teaming Model (GTM) is a CMMI (R)-style process model comprising 64 recommendations that synthesizes empirical evidence on how to overcome the obstacles faced by global software development projects. While the Global Teaming Model recommendations specify what a global software development project should do, it does not specify how. In order to provide concrete guidance for projects that wish to employ Agile methods in a global software development context, we asked, could the practices described in the Scaled Agile Framework (R) (SAFe (R)) provide examples for how GTM recommendations could be realized? We found 79 of 90 SAFe (R) Team level practices partly or wholly implement GTM recommendations. The SAFe (R) mapping onto the Global Teaming model provides a concrete roadmap for teams who need specific advice on how to implement GTM practices that have been identified as necessary to their success.","PeriodicalId":207379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115663097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Open Projects \"Break the Mirror\"?: Re-conceptualization of Organizational Configurations in Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Development","authors":"Eunyoung Moon","doi":"10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSEW.2016.18","url":null,"abstract":"The mirroring hypothesis holds when products and the organizations that create them have structures that mirror each other, coordination will be reduced and projects will be more successful. Yet research suggests that free/libre open source software (FLOSS) projects can be successful even when violating this principle, \"breaking the mirror\" when loosely-coupled FLOSS contributors develop tightly-coupled systems. This study investigates this idea through a multiple-case studies using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. This study contributes to a fine-grained perspective that considers organizational configurations in community-based FLOSS development as an aggregate of many work episodes, each of which produces work outcomes, and can have different organizational coupling from loosely-coupled to tightly-coupled. This study intends to make a contribution to software design research, open collaboration, and industry practitioners who are interested in adoption of the FLOSS approach in commercial software development projects.","PeriodicalId":207379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115456785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}