This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development, SEAFOOD 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, in February 2007. The 15 revised full papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects and address topical regions such as processes, education, country reports, evaluation and assessment, communication and distribution, as well as tools.
Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom.- Meeting the Challenge of Communication in Offshore Software Development.- Testable Requirements for Offshore Outsourcing.- Introducing Global Supply Chains into Software Engineering Education.- Turn on Lean Governance ... for Return on Outsourcing.- Making IT Offshoring Work for the Japanese Industries.- Mastering Dual-Shore Development – The Tools and Materials Approach Adapted to Agile Offshoring.- Evaluating Collaboration Platforms for Offshore Software Development Scenarios.- Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Consultancies’ Estimates.- Questionnaire-Based Risk Assessment Scheme for Japanese Offshore Software Outsourcing.- An Evaluation Method for Offshore Software Development by Structural Equation Modeling.- The Value of Outsourced Software.- Reducing the Cost of Communication and Coordination in Distributed Software Development.- Survey on Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China.- Toward Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relationships in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects.
