Costs of software development and deployment are decreasing due to numerous open
source projects and novel Cloud-based services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), but competition …

The main challenge addressed by the EU-funded project CloudTeams is bridging the
communication and collaboration gap between software developers and end users during …

Interest around cloud computing has been growing quite rapidly during the past few years,
and the model of cloud computing is evolving into an indispensable component of …

Cloud computing is currently generating tremendous excitement in the IT industry. However,
most cloud initiatives to date have focused on the delivery of computing services to end …

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art technologies for software
development in cloud environments. The surveyed systems cover the whole spectrum of …

This paper studies the problem of building open source communities for industrial software
that was originally developed as closed source. We present a conceptual framework for …

Software development environments (IDEs) have not followed the IT industry's inexorable
trend towards distribution. They do too little to address the problems raised by today's …

In this paper, we provide an overview over the PaaSage project's approach to helping the
developer in exploiting cloud environments according to their specific needs and …

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

Offshore software development has become one of the prominent software engineering
trends in recent years. Many software development projects are switching to offshore sites …