Software Development projects face challenges even when the team is co-located. With
distributed teams, these challenges are greater and the teams face numerous other …

Does geographic distance affect distributed software development teams? Researchers
have been mining software artifacts to find evidence that geographic distance between …

Model driven development (MDD) is a software engineering practice that is gaining in
popularity. We aim to investigate to what extend it is effective. There is a lack of empirical …

Distributing development tasks in the context of global software development bears both
many risks and many opportunities. Nowadays, distributed development is often driven by …

Software engineering is no longer the preserve of individuals but is essentially a team-
based activity involving a wide variety of stakeholders and thus making the need for …

This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Software Process
(ICSP 2008) held in Leipzig, Germany, during May 10-11, 2008. ICSP 2008 was the second …

Global software development is rapidly becoming the norm for technology companies.
Previous qualitative research suggests that distributed development may increase …

Software engineering is by nature a highly collaborative activity. However, this collaboration
is more difficult when the teams are geographically separated, as several factors, such as …

Cloud-based infrastructure has been increasingly adopted by the industry in distributed
software development (DSD) environments. Its proponents claim that its several benefits …