Requirements Understanding in Global Software Engineering: Industrial Surveys
Hashim Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Conny Johansson, Mohammed Abdullah Al Nuem · 2011
Going offshore has become a norm in current software organizations due to several benefits like availability of competent people, cost, proximity to market and customers, time and so on. Despite the fact that Global Software Engineering (GSE) offers many benefits to software organizations but it has also created several challenges/issues for practitioners and researchers like culture, communication, co-ordination and collaboration, team building and so on. Further, Requirements Engineering (RE) itself is a very complicated and human intensive activity but GSE had made it more complicated and diverse. Therefore, people working in offshore environment face challenges in Requirements Understanding (RU). In this paper, we identified different GSE challenges and its impact on RU. Furthermore, several industrial surveys have been conducted with the intent to get real environment industrial perceptions and opinions regarding the identified challenges and its impact on RU.