Toward Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relationships in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects

Souza, Cleidson R. B. de; Hildenbrand, Tobias; Redmiles, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75542-5_15

Cited by 16 publications

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“…The work presented in this paper is in line with existing work on tools supporting offshore software development focusing on the use of sociograms and the visualization of dependencies [5] [11]. Our work from several pilot studies focuses on understanding the inter-team interactions in a way similar to other works on awareness of inter-team development [17], human activities in software development and group awareness enhancing collaboration [24].…”

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confidence: 64%

Using Data Analytics for Collaboration Patterns in Distributed Software Team Simulations: The Role of Dashboards in Visualizing Global Software Development Patterns

Dafoulas

Serce

Swigger

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)

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SECTION I. IntroductionThe work presented in this paper is ongoing for more than six years based on an initial research project funded by the US National Science Foundation with the participation of universities from US, Turkey, Panama and the UK. The original project focused on the investigation of software development teams working over different time zones. The project utilized student teams to observe communication, collaboration and coordination patterns. The project used industrial advisory roles to gain an understanding of the logistics involved in real GSD projects, as well as issues relating to the way individuals participate in GSD teams and fulfill different roles. The project funding completion did not disrupt the on going research, which involved further institution allowing the researchers to investigate different team structures, cultural differences, software development tasks and GSD coordination.The research is predominantly based on the observation of pilots involving student groups organized in GSD projects including time zone differences, multi-cultural teams and the use of computersupported cooperative work tools for communication, file sharing, data repository and collaborative authoring. In this paper we will discuss two pilots involving six universities, three from Palestine and three from Egypt. These institutions participated in a EU funded project developing a joint postgraduate degree in software engineering and their students were trained in various aspects of distributed teamwork and GSD.At earlier stage of this work, emphasis was given on issues such as coding mechanisms for communication in GSD, gamification and the role of culture in distributed software teams. During the past couple of years, the research branched out towards the role of data analytics in GSD and how data visualization would assist in understanding patterns of communication and collaboration in GSD projects.As we will discuss in the following pages, there are two main drivers for using data analytics in this project, (i) obvious benefits for learning teams, as instructors are able to identify potential issues with individual students or certain teams, (ii) evident benefits for facilitating performance management of software development activities.The work presented in this paper is in line with existing work on tools supporting offshore software development focusing on the use of sociograms and the visualization of dependencies [5] [11]. Our work from several pilot studies focuses on understanding the inter-team interactions in a way similar to other works on awareness of inter-team development [17], human activities in software development and group awareness enhancing collaboration [24]. SECTION II.Background on GSD

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Using Data Analytics for Collaboration Patterns in Distributed Software Team Simulations: The Role of Dashboards in Visualizing Global Software Development Patterns

Dafoulas

Serce

Swigger

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)

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“…Figure 1 depicts a network of different requirements and users from one of our evaluation projects (cf. also [6]). …”

Section: Traceability Visualization and Analysismentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Intra-organizational distribution can be due to historical reasons, whereas interorganizational distribution may have its roots in outsourcing activities, cost reduction strategies (such as offshoring development activities to low wage countries, cf. [6]), crossorganizational cooperations, or the need for close customer collaboration. DSD is always afflicted with additional communication issues, exacerbating the efficient coordination of tasks and knowledge management [11].…”

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An Evaluation Method for Requirements Engineering Approaches in Distributed Software Development Projects

Geisser

Hildenbrand

Rothlauf

et al. 2007

International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007)

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The distribution of software engineering tasks is becoming ever more common. Requirements engineering, as the most critical phase, therefore requires methods and tools to support distributed teams. However, nearly all requirements engineering methods have originally been designed for collocated scenarios. Before applying these methods in distributed settings in practice and for scientific rigor, proper evaluation has to be conducted. Hence, we developed a methodologically sound and cost-effective evaluation method for distributed requirements engineering methods as well as the corresponding tool infrastructure for conducting evaluation projects.

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“…This option can help eliminate the number of notifications that team members receive, creating an overload of sent messages and avoid over-communication among team members; "The goal here is to reduce the number of notifications that software developers receive because a common problem was the overwhelming flood of notification messages initiated by other software developers or software tools due to changes in the artifacts." [23]. This has proven particularly useful for the people acting as bridges between teams, or otherwise acting as information brokers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Travis can help these information brokers to manage the large amounts of information they receive from the communication between the collaborating teams; "TraVis provides increased awareness within offshore software development projects based on a broad range of traceability and rationale visualizations that are created with information extracted from the collaborative development platform." [23].…”

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Adopting a Social Network Perspective in Global Software Development

Manteli¹,

Vliet²,

Hooff

2012

2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-In the past few years, software engineering researchers have adopted social network analysis techniques to understand collaboration patterns in global software teams. In this paper, we investigate current research in global software development where social network theory is used as an analysis technique. We do so through a systematic literature review where we collect and analyze previous work that adopt a social network perspective in distributed software development. We use the 3C collaboration model to classify our results based on the communication, coordination and cooperation aspects of global networks. Our results reveal two main coordination structures used in distributed teams, namely the clustering and the core-periphery structure. The analysis of the cooperation activities of the global networks reveal differences between planning and practice. Finally, several tools have been identified that aim to improve communication patterns among distributed team members.

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Toward Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relationships in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Using Data Analytics for Collaboration Patterns in Distributed Software Team Simulations: The Role of Dashboards in Visualizing Global Software Development Patterns

Using Data Analytics for Collaboration Patterns in Distributed Software Team Simulations: The Role of Dashboards in Visualizing Global Software Development Patterns

An Evaluation Method for Requirements Engineering Approaches in Distributed Software Development Projects

Adopting a Social Network Perspective in Global Software Development

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