Test Governance Framework for contracted IS development: Ethnographically informed action research

Doležel, Michal; Buchalcevova, Alena

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2015.03.003

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“…Finally, Doležel and Buchalcevová, 41 together with Ramasubbu and Balan, 48 show progress from the practitioners' and researchers' points of view, respectively. Doležel and Buchalcevová 41 presented a Test Governance Framework ( TeGoF ), where cultural factors were considered as a “potent and seminal factor” in the setting in which the framework was deployed. From the research point of view, Ramasubbu and Balan 48 once again highlight the need for empirically proven dispersion metrics, as well as models for costs estimation, team organization, and definition of key processes.…”

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Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Manjavacas

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J Software Evolu Process

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Global software development (GSD) has become a rising software development model in the last few years. Although much research has been performed in terms of GSD management, GSD governance research is scarce at the present time and presents multiple challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, a systematic mapping study has been conducted, the aim of which was to discover the main issues dealt with in GSD governance literature, as well as to point out the particular research gaps that are still present in this domain. This allowed us to find out new challenges to be addressed, along with possible solutions to these. The results reveal a lack of research in key aspects such as tools, culture, people, and information, all of which provides a great opportunity for future approaches while also highlighting new opportunities in GSD governance research.

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confidence: 94%

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Manjavacas

Vizcaíno

Ruíz

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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“…This observation is as expected since these methods are, perhaps, better suited than other methods for IAC projects. Action research is "research initiated to solve an immediate problem" (Stringer 2013) and thus many industry-focused researchers are increasingly adopting it as the research method of choice, e.g., (Petersen et al 2014b;Doležel and Buchalcevová 2015;Christensen et al 2008;Viikki and Palviainen 2011). By being rooted in industrial practice, these research methods typically generate rich contextual information and many qualitative insights (Santos and Travassos 2009).…”

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Characterizing industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: evidence from 101 projects

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Research collaboration between industry and academia supports improvement and innovation in industry and helps ensure the industrial relevance of academic research. However, many researchers and practitioners in the community believe that the level of joint industry-academia collaboration (IAC) projects in Software Engineering (SE) research is relatively low, creating a barrier between research and practice. The goal of the empirical study reported in this paper is to explore and characterize the state of IAC with respect to industrial needs, developed solutions, impacts of the projects and also a set of challenges, patterns and anti-patterns identified by a recent Systematic Literature Review (SLR) study. To address the above goal, we conducted an opinion survey among researchers and practitioners with respect to their experience in IAC. Our dataset includes 101 data points from IAC projects conducted in 21 different countries. Our findings include: (1) the most popular topics of the IAC projects, in the dataset, are: software testing, quality, process, and project managements; (2) over 90% of IAC projects result in at least one publication; (3) almost 50% of IACs are initiated by industry, busting the myth that industry tends to avoid IACs; and (4) 61% of the IAC projects report having a positive impact on their industrial context, while 31% report no noticeable impacts or were "not sure". To improve this situation, we present evidence-based recommendations to increase the success of IAC projects, such as the importance of testing pilot solutions before using them in industry. This study aims to contribute to the body of evidence in the area of IAC, and benefit researchers and practitioners. Using the data and evidence presented in this paper, they can conduct more successful IAC projects in SE by being aware of the challenges and how to overcome them, by applying best practices (patterns), and by preventing anti-patterns.

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“…The interest in software testing outsourcing implementation has recently become a trend [1], [2]. The activity which is defined as the delegation of testing part to external parties who provide the agreed services typically aims for cost savings advantage while achieving a quality software product within the estimated schedule [3].…”

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“…The non-context guidance resulted in the involving parties to not well acquainted on the precaution of the subject matter [3], [8]. This consequently leads to inaccurate estimates of projects costs resulting in significant losses such as lower expenses compared to the estimation, which actually could be saved [1], [4] or unexpected higher outlays [9]. Based on these issues, this paper intends to highlight the essential elements to be considered for cost estimation according to the context of software testing outsourcing projects.…”

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Considerations for Cost Estimation of Software Testing Outsourcing Projects

Ismail

Razali

Mansor

2019

Int. J. Adv. Sci. Eng. Inf. Technol.

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Software testing outsourcing appears to be the best alternative to acquire better software quality with competent ratification by extrinsic parties who have the capability to do it. Through the effort, organizations are peeking to promising benefits constitute in it such as current testing technology, experts, an abridgment of the project's duration and more concentration on the main organisation's activity. Along with these benefits, one important reason that encourages the decision is optimization of cost expenditure, which the strategy is perceived as a good move for a competitive organization. However, implementing such preference eventually results in a different outcome. Organizations have to bear the higher cost and incur losses of cost deviation from the expected estimation. The conflicting between cost and benefits raises an important concern of striving better cost estimation for such projects. This paper aims to address this interest by analyzing the existing literature in order to identify the contributing factors towards better cost estimation for software testing outsourcing project-context. The analysis is done using the content analysis method. The results could be divided into two categories; which are the cost items and contributing factors. Cost items consist of direct cost and indirect cost, which refers to the expenses for the project. While the contributing factors consist of people and environment, which are needed to produce accurate cost estimation. The findings provide an insight to excogitate attentively the essentials in the endeavor of improving the exactitude of cost estimation for software testing outsourcing project.

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Test Governance Framework for contracted IS development: Ethnographically informed action research

Cited by 5 publications

References 95 publications

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Global software development governance: Challenges and solutions

Characterizing industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: evidence from 101 projects

Considerations for Cost Estimation of Software Testing Outsourcing Projects

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