Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Outsourcing through Combining Software Departments of Several Companies

   • Jarmo J. Ahonen, Anu Valtanen, Paula Savolainen, Timo Schalkowski, Mikko Kontio

   Pages 1-14

3. Timeline Prediction Framework for Iterative Software Engineering Projects with Changes

   • Kay Berkling, Georgios Kiragiannis, Armin Zundel, Subhajit Datta

   Pages 15-32

4. Outsourcing-Iterative Improvement Model for Transforming Challenges to Mutual Benefits

   • Atanu Bhattacharya

   Pages 33-45

5. A Structure for Management of Requirements Set for e-Learning Applications

   • Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Marian Cristian Mihăescu, Bogdan Logofatu

   Pages 46-58

6. Evaluation of Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations

   • Pedro E. Colla, Jorge Marcelo Montagna

   Pages 59-72

7. An Examination of the Effects of Offshore and Outsourced Development on the Delegation of Responsibilities to Software Components

   • Subhajit Datta, Robert van Engelen

   Pages 73-89

8. Students as Partners and Students as Mentors: An Educational Model for Quality Assurance in Global Software Development

   • Olly Gotel, Vidya Kulkarni, Christelle Scharff, Longchrea Neak

   Pages 90-106

9. Problems and Solutions in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review

   • Miguel Jiménez, Mario Piattini

   Pages 107-125

10. Design and Code Reviews in the Age of the Internet

    • Bertrand Meyer

    Pages 126-133

11. Preliminary Analysis for Risk Finding in Offshore Software Outsourcing from Vendor’s Viewpoint

    • Zhongqi Sheng, Hiroshi Tsuji, Akito Sakurai, Ken’ichi Yoshida, Takako Nakatani

    Pages 134-148

12. Evidence-Based Management of Outsourced Software Projects

    • Fadrian Sudaman, Christine Mingins

    Pages 149-165

13. A Closer Look at Extreme Programming (XP) with an Onsite-Offshore Model to Develop Software Projects Using XP Methodology

    • Ponmurugarajan S. Thiyagarajan, Sachal Verma

    Pages 166-180

14. Measuring and Monitoring Task Couplings of Developers and Development Sites in Global Software Development

    • Yunwen Ye, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto

    Pages 181-195

15. Automated Process Quality Assurance for Distributed Software Development

    • Jian Zhai, Qiusong Yang, Ye Yang, Junchao Xiao, Qing Wang, Mingshu Li

    Pages 196-210

16. Back Matter

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Majoreconomicupheavalscanhavethesortofe?ectthatSchumpeterforesaw60 yearsagoascreativedestruction.Inscienceandtechnology,equivalentupheavals resultfromeitherscienti?crevolutions(asobservedbyKuhn)ortheintroduction of what Christensen calls disruptive technologies. And in software engineering, there has been no technology more disruptive than outsourcing. That it should so quickly reach maturity and an unparalleled scale is truly remarkable; that it should now be called to demonstrate its sustainability in the current ?nancial turmoil is the challenge that will prove whether and how it will endure. Early signs under even the bleak market conditions of the last 12 months are that it will not only survive, it will ?rmly establish its role across the world of business. Outsourcing throws into sharp focus the entire software engineering life- cle. Topics as diverse as requirements analysis, concurrency and model-checking need to ?nd a composite working partnership in software engineering practice. This con?uence arises from need, not dogma, and the solutions required are those that will have the right e?ect on the associated activities in the world of the application: e.g., reducing the time for a transaction or making the results of a complex analysis available in real-time. While the business of outsourcing continues to be studied, the engineering innovations that make it compelling are constantly changing. It is in this milieu that this series of conferences has placed itself.

• Distributed Software Development
• Extreme Programming
• Global Software Development
• Offshoring
• Outsourcing
• Software Engineering
• Software Process Management
• design
• object oriented design
• programming
• quality assurance

• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  Kay Berkling

• Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India

  Mathai Joseph

• ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Bertrand Meyer, Martin Nordio

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