Managing software development information in global configuration management activities

Abstract

Software Configuration Management (SCM) techniques have been considered the entry point to rigorous software engineering, where multiple organizations cooperate in a decentralized mode to save resources, ensure the quality of the diversity of software products, and manage corporate information to get a better return of investment. The incessant trend of Global Software Development (GSD) and the complexity of implementing a correct SCM solution grow not only because of the changing circumstances, but also because of the interactions and the forces related to GSD activities. This paper addresses the role SCM plays in the development of commercial products and systems, and introduces a SCM reference model to describe the relationships between the different technical, organizational, and product concerns any software development company should support in the global market.

Requirement Change Management in Global Software Environment Using Cloud Computing

“…Cloud computing offering many benefits some of them are: No up-front investment [10] [11], on demand self service [12] low operating cost, high scalability [13], easy access, reducing business challenges and reducing maintenance cost [11]. Keeping in view benefits of cloud computing we use it for managing requirement change in GSD environment and it is evaluated that framework using cloud computing resolving the challenges of RCM mentioned above:  Cloud computing basically offers efficient collaboration between geographically distributed teams during software development life cycle such as requirements, design, coding and testing.…”

Towards Holistic Traceability Solution

“…Past studies have raised the need to establish such traceability solutions by incorporating management process. (Bendix, Magnusson, & Pendleton, 2012;Capilla, Dueñas, & Krikhaar, 2012;Lanubile, Ebert, Prikladnicki, & Vizcaíno, 2010;Balasubramaniam Ramesh & Jarke, 2001) Motivated by the need to establish holistic traceability model covering both product and process knowledge perspectives, this research opted to extend the definition of the traceability meta-model as developed by Balasubramaniam Ramesh and Jarke (2001).…”