People and organizations in software production: a review of the literature

Nash, Sarah H.; Redwine, Samuel T.

doi:10.1145/43947.43949

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“…The use of team collaboration to improve the effectiveness and productivity of systems development efforts has been widely touted for some time [23,28,29]. Hiltz and Turoff [16] and Murrel [22] found that groups produce decisions that are superior to the average individual solutions.…”

Section: Concurrencymentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical study using task assignment patterns to improve the accuracy of software effort estimation

Smith

Hale

Parrish

2001

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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In most software development organizations, there is seldom a one-to-one mapping between software developers and development tasks. It is frequently necessary to concurrently assign individuals to multiple tasks, and to assign more than one individual to work cooperatively on a single task. A principal goal in making such assignments should be to minimize the effort required to complete each task. But what impact does the manner in which developers are assigned to tasks have on the effort requirements? This paper identifies four task assignment factors: team size, concurrency, intensity and fragmentation. These four factors are shown to improve the predictive ability of the well-known Intermediate COCOMO cost estimation model. A parsimonious effort estimation model is also derived that utilizes a subset of the task assignment factors and Unadjusted Function Points. For the data examined, this parsimonious model is shown to have goodness of fit and quality of estimation superior to that of the COCOMO model, while utilizing fewer cost factors.

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Section: Concurrencymentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical study using task assignment patterns to improve the accuracy of software effort estimation

Smith

Hale

Parrish

2001

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…The literature seems to be quite lacking in the review studies on the effect of human factors. Some of the secondary studies about “human factor on software quality” are very old dated [ 2 , 3 ]. There is a master thesis about exact same subject but it’s from 2010 [ 4 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Factor on Software Quality: A Systematic Literature Review

Guveyi

Aktaş

Kalipsiz

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Ensuring software quality is an important step towards a successful project. Since software development is a human-oriented process, it is possible to say that any factor affecting people will directly affect software quality and success. The aim of this study is to reveal which factors affect humans. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic literature review. We identified 80 related primary studies from the literature. We defined 7 research questions. For answering research questions, we extracted data from the primary studies. We researched human factors, methods for data collection and data analysis, publication types and years. Factors are grouped into 3 main groups: Personal factors, interpersonal factors, and organizational factors. The results show that personal factors are the most important category of human factors. It is seen that the most researched factors among personal factors are “experience” and “education”.

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“…The stress faced by IS&T workers may be different from other employees in the organization. Research revealed vast differences existed between the abilities, cognitive perspectives, and personality styles of IS&T professionals and the general public (Nash and Redwine, 1988). IS&T workers are distinct with their own identity, attitudes, interests, colleagueship, collective action, power, status, and work consciousness (Orlikowski and Barley, 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%