Assessment of the Approaches Used in Indigenous Software Products Development in Nigeria
Gbonjubola Oluwafunmilayo Binuyo, M. O. Alimi · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 2017
Acceptability of indigenous software is always low in most of the African countries especially inNigeria.This paper then study and presents the results on the assessment of the approaches used in indigenous software development products.The study involved ICT firms that specialized in software development and educational institutions who were part of major stakeholders as well as users of software packages.The primary tool for data collection was questionnaire, which was used to elicit information from software developers on the various approaches adopted in their operations.This was also complemented with information from secondary sources.The identified approaches were measured on a five-point Likert scale rating of 5 to 1 to determine their relative strength index (RSI) in the factors.The result revealed the various approaches adopted for software development had significant difference of chi (45)1699.06at p≤ 0.001 with spiral (6.02), agile (5.86), prototyping (5.67), object oriented (5.48), rotational unified process (5.32), computer and incremental case (4.50), waterfall (3.66) and integrated (1.98) were the commonly adopted approaches used for software development.Similarly, the approaches adopted by software development firms were correlated and returned a significant difference of (Z = 1699.06,p≤ 0.001).The result implies that these approaches had a great impact on the domestic use of software products and perhaps is the most important driver of software industry growth for emerging technologies.