Software Cost Attributes in Global Software Development Projects
Manal El Bajta, Ali Idri, Joaquín Nicolás, José Luis Fernández‐Alemán, Ambrosio Toval · 2017
Global software development is nowadays becoming a priority for software industry. The actual global software engineering research has mainly focused on challenges and methodologies. Research on the cost attributes and the software development was fundamental to emphasize on the application of these attributes in the overall software development. A major research to explicit how global companies practicing global software development are undertaken to address those cost attributes. In this paper, a descriptive survey is conducted to define the position of cost attributes in global software development. This survey is a data collection from an empirical strategy through an online questionnaire targeting 30 practitioners with practical software engineering experience. Moreover, results of 26 questions, chosen with major care, are analyzed and discussed. The results show that interest in cost attributes for global software development projects is a critical topic for distributed software development. The control and the evaluation of cost attributes allow companies principally to save cost and also to remain focused on development of projects.