Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

Kay Berkling

ISBN 10: 3642018556 / ISBN 13: 9783642018558

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2009, 2009

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Neuware -Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60 yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals resultfromeitherscienti crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current nancial turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will rmly establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking need to nd a composite working partnership in software engineering practice. This con uence arises from need, not dogma, and the solutions required are those that will have the right e ect on the associated activities in the world of the application: e.g., reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself. 224 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9783642018558

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Titolo: Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore...

Casa editrice: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jun 2009

Data di pubblicazione: 2009

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe?ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60 yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals resultfromeitherscienti?crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current ?nancial turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will ?rmly establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking need to ?nd a composite working partnership in software engineering practice. This con?uence arises from need, not dogma, and the solutions required are those that will have the right e?ect on the associated activities in the world of the application: e.g., reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself.

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Outsourcing through Combining Software Departments of Several Companies.- Timeline Prediction Framework for Iterative Software Engineering Projects with Changes.- Outsourcing-Iterative Improvement Model for Transforming Challenges to Mutual Benefits.- A Structure for Management of Requirements Set for e-Learning Applications.- Evaluation of Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations.- An Examination of the Effects of Offshore and Outsourced Development on the Delegation of Responsibilities to Software Components.- Students as Partners and Students as Mentors: An Educational Model for Quality Assurance in Global Software Development.- Problems and Solutions in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review.- Design and Code Reviews in the Age of the Internet.- Preliminary Analysis for Risk Finding in Offshore Software Outsourcing from Vendor’s Viewpoint.- Evidence-Based Management of Outsourced Software Projects.- A Closer Look at Extreme Programming (XP) with an Onsite-Offshore Model to Develop Software Projects Using XP Methodology.- Measuring and Monitoring Task Couplings of Developers and Development Sites in Global Software Development.- Automated Process Quality Assurance for Distributed Software Development.