2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)最新文献

Scaling Scrum in a Large Globally Distributed Organization: A Case Study 在大型全球分布式组织中扩展Scrum:一个案例研究

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.34

M. Paasivaara, C. Lassenius

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引用次数: 52

Scaling Agile Scrum Software Development: Providing Agility and Quality to Platform Development by Reducing Time to Market 扩展敏捷Scrum软件开发:通过缩短上市时间为平台开发提供敏捷性和质量

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.24

Madan Mohan Jha, Rosa Maria Ferrer Vilardell, J. Narayan

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引用次数: 23

How Does Software Process Improvement Address Global Software Engineering? 软件过程改进如何解决全局软件工程问题?

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.10

M. Kuhrmann, Philipp Diebold, Jürgen Münch, Paolo Tell

{"title":"How Does Software Process Improvement Address Global Software Engineering?","authors":"M. Kuhrmann, Philipp Diebold, Jürgen Münch, Paolo Tell","doi":"10.1109/ICGSE.2016.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2016.10","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, Software Process Improvement (SPI) programs have been implemented, inter alia, to improve quality and speed of software development. To set up, guide, and carry out SPI projects, and to measure SPI state, impact, and success, a multitude of different SPI approaches and considerable experience are available. SPI addresses many aspects ranging from individual developer skills to entire organizations. It comprises for instance the optimization of specific activities in the software lifecycle as well as the creation of organization awareness and project culture. In the course of conducting a systematic mapping study on the state-of-the-art in SPI from a general perspective, we observed Global Software Engineering (GSE) becoming a topic of interest in recent years. Therefore, in this paper, we provide a detailed investigation of those papers from the overall systematic mapping study that were classified as addressing SPI in the context of GSE. From the main study's result set, a set of 30 papers dealing with GSE was selected for an in-depth analysis using the systematic review instrument to study the contributions and to develop an initial picture of how GSE is considered from the perspective of SPI. Our findings show the analyzed papers delivering a substantial discussion of cultural models and how such models can be used to better address and align SPI programs with multi-national environments. Furthermore, experience is shared discussing how agile approaches can be implemented in companies working at the global scale. Finally, success factors and barriers are studied to help companies implementing SPI in a GSE context.","PeriodicalId":437860,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)","volume":"6 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":"124275348","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}

引用次数: 16

MONO: A Computer-Supported Cooperative Tool for Digital Content Software Projects 数字内容软件项目的计算机支持的协作工具

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.36

D. Correal, Oscar González Rojas, Manuel Camargo, G. Pedraza-Garcia

引用次数: 0

Agile Workbench: Tying People, Process, and Tools in Distributed Agile Delivery 敏捷工作台:在分布式敏捷交付中捆绑人员、过程和工具

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.17

V. Sharma, Vikrant S. Kaulgud

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引用次数: 5

Dynamics of Software Development Crowdsourcing 软件开发动态众包

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.13

Alpana Dubey, K. Abhinav, Sakshi Taneja, G. Virdi, Anurag Dwarakanath, A. Kass, Mani Suma Kuriakose

{"title":"Dynamics of Software Development Crowdsourcing","authors":"Alpana Dubey, K. Abhinav, Sakshi Taneja, G. Virdi, Anurag Dwarakanath, A. Kass, Mani Suma Kuriakose","doi":"10.1109/ICGSE.2016.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2016.13","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of online labor markets has concentrated a lot of attention on the prospect of using crowdsourcing for software development, with a potential to reduce costs, improve time-to-market, and access high-quality skills on demand. However, crowdsourcing of software development is still not widely adopted. A key barrier to adoption is a lack of confidence that a task will be completed on time with the required quality standards. While good managers can develop good, intuitive estimates of task completion when assigning work to their team members, they might lack similar intuition for individuals drawn from an online crowd. The phrase, \"Post and Hope\" is thus sometimes used when talking about the crowdsourcing of software-development tasks. The objective of this paper is to show the value of replacing the traditional, intuitive assessment of a team's capability with a quantitative assessment of the crowd, derived through analysis of historical performance on similar tasks. This analysis will serve to transform \"Post and Hope\" to \"Post and Expect.\" We demonstrate this by analyzing data about tasks performed on two popular crowdsourcing platforms: Topcoder and Upwork. Analysis of historical data from these platforms indicates that the platforms indeed demonstrate some level of predictability in task completion. We have identified certain factors that consistently contribute to task completion on both the platforms. Our findings suggest that a data-driven decision processes can play an important role in successful adoption of crowdsourcing practice for software development.","PeriodicalId":437860,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)","volume":"68 5 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":"133250279","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}

引用次数: 28

Global Software Engineering: Evolution and Trends 全球软件工程:演变和趋势

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.19

C. Ebert, M. Kuhrmann, R. Prikladnicki

{"title":"Global Software Engineering: Evolution and Trends","authors":"C. Ebert, M. Kuhrmann, R. Prikladnicki","doi":"10.1109/ICGSE.2016.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2016.19","url":null,"abstract":"Professional software products and IT systems and services today are developed mostly by globally distributed teams, projects, and companies. Successfully orchestrating Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become the major success factor both for organizations and practitioners. Yet, more than a half of all distributed projects does not achieve the intended objectives and is canceled. This paper summarizes experiences from academia and industry in a way to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer. It is based on an evaluation of 10 years of research, and industry collaboration and experience reported at the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICGSE) series. The outcomes of our analysis show GSE as a field highly attached to industry and, thus, a considerable share of ICGSE papers address the transfer of Software Engineering concepts and solutions to the global stage. We found collaboration and teams, processes and organization, sourcing and supplier management, and success factors to be the topics gaining the most interest of researchers and practitioners. Beyond the analysis of the past conferences, we also look at current trends in GSE to motivate further research and industrial collaboration.","PeriodicalId":437860,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)","volume":"19 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":"122015937","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}

引用次数: 49

Challenges in Adapting Agile Testing in a Legacy Product 在遗留产品中采用敏捷测试的挑战

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.21

R. Gupta, Prabhulinga Manikreddy, V. AbhinandanG.

引用次数: 6

Towards Adopting Alternative Workforce for Software Engineering 面向软件工程采用替代劳动力

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.16

Alpana Dubey, G. Virdi, Mani Suma Kuriakose, Veenu Arora

{"title":"Towards Adopting Alternative Workforce for Software Engineering","authors":"Alpana Dubey, G. Virdi, Mani Suma Kuriakose, Veenu Arora","doi":"10.1109/ICGSE.2016.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2016.16","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an approach for adopting alternative workforce in an organization. Alternative workforce refers to a pool of workers who work for the organization as contract workers or as crowd workers for a set of specific tasks or duration. Adoption of crowd workers as an alternative workforce is gaining a lot of attention these days. However, it is still not widely adopted by big organizations because of the concerns related to quality, timeliness, and confidentiality. A partial adoption of crowd workforce is a natural next step to leverage the benefits of crowdsourcing. The above partial adoption creates a hybrid workforce structure where different type of workers, such as full time employees, contractors, and crowd workers, work for the organization. A number of challenges need to be addressed for the above model to succeed. For instance, hiring right workers, establishing a proper collaboration among the workers distributed across geographies, and assessing the workers for confidentiality and privacy. This paper proposes a platform that alleviates some of the above challenges. We present a pilot performed on the platform and initial experiences gained from the adoption of the platform.","PeriodicalId":437860,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)","volume":"83 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":"130439663","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}

引用次数: 4

Communication between Developers and Testers in Distributed Continuous Agile Testing 分布式持续敏捷测试中开发人员和测试人员之间的沟通

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) Pub Date : 2016-08-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2016.27

D. Cruzes, N. B. Moe, T. Dybå

{"title":"Communication between Developers and Testers in Distributed Continuous Agile Testing","authors":"D. Cruzes, N. B. Moe, T. Dybå","doi":"10.1109/ICGSE.2016.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2016.27","url":null,"abstract":"Software developers and testers have to work together to achieve the goals of software development projects. In globally distributed software projects the development and testing are often scattered across multiple locations forming virtual teams. Further, the distributed projects are so complex that none of team members can possibly possess all the knowledge about the project individually. During testing in such teams, developers and testers need to coordinate and communicate frequently. However, coordination is affected by the availability of the project information, which is distributed among different project members and organizational structures. Many companies are facing decisions about how to apply agile methods in their distributed projects. These companies are often motivated by the opportunities of solving the coordination and communication difficulties associated with global software development. In this paper we investigate the communication between testers and developers in two teams from two software companies performing continuous agile testing in a distributed setting. We describe four communication practices used by the team: handover through issue tracker system, formal meetings, written communication and coordination by mutual adjustment. We also discuss communication between testers and developers in collocated versus distributed testers and developers. We have found that early participation of the testers is very important to the success of the handover between testers and developers. The communication between developers and testers is not sufficiently effective through written communication and that it changes depending on the type of the tasks and experience of the testers.","PeriodicalId":437860,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)","volume":"191 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":"131897113","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}

引用次数: 28