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全球软件工程研究的系统性概述

Research in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Snapshot

Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell, Tony Clear

摘要:

本文报告了我们的扩展分析最近的文献解决全球软件工程(GSE),使用一种新的系统快照映射(SSM)技术。这项工作的主要目的是了解正在处理的问题和如何在GSE进行研究-以及比较而言,没有进行的工作。我们分两个阶段进行分析。在第一阶段,我们分析了2011年1月至2012年6月期间发表的275篇论文,在第二阶段,我们通过考虑另外26篇论文(来自2013年全球软件工程国际会议(ICGSE'13))来增强我们的分析。我们的研究结果表明,目前,GSE研究的重点是管理和基础设施相关的因素,主要使用评估的研究方法。大多数研究是在组织层面进行的,主要采用访谈、调查、实地研究和案例研究等方法。美国、印度和中国是GSE的主要参与者,美国-印度合作是最常被研究的,其次是美国-中国。虽然自2011年1月以来已经发表了相当数量的GSE相关研究,但它们目前相当狭窄,集中在探索性研究和解释性理论上,而批判性研究范式尚未触及。缺乏公式化的研究、实验和模拟,以及对评价方法的相关关注,都表明相关领域的现有工具、方法和办法正在全球稳定和经济的背景下进行测试,尽管这些工具、方法和办法本身可能并不适用于全球稳定和经济的额外规模和复杂性。

英文摘要:

This paper reports our extended analysis of the recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE), using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. The primary purpose of this work is to understand what issues are being addressed and how research is being carried out in GSE -- and comparatively, what work is not being conducted. We carried out the analysis in two stages. In the first stage we analyzed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012, and in the second stage we augmented our analysis by considering a further 26 papers (from the 2013 International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE'13). Our results reveal that, currently, GSE studies are focused on management- and infrastructure-related factors, using principally evaluative research approaches. Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level, mainly using methods such as interviews, surveys, field studies and case studies. The USA, India and China are major players in GSE, with USA-India collaborations being the most frequently studied, followed by USA-China. While a considerable number of GSE-related studies have been published since January 2011 they are currently quite narrowly focused, on exploratory research and explanatory theories, and the critical research paradigm has been untouched. An absence of formulative research, experimentation and simulation, and a related focus on evaluative approaches, all suggest that existing tools, methods and approaches from related fields are being tested in the GSE context, even though these may not be inherently applicable to the additional scale and complexity of GSE.

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