While organisations recognise the advantages offered by global software development,
many socio-technical barriers affect successful collaboration in this inter-cultural …

Many organisations are dependent upon long-term sustainable software systems and
associated communities. In this paper we consider long-term sustainability of Open Source …

Follow-the-sun (FTS) software development is a strategy used to reduce the length of
software projects that are developed across globally distributed locations. However, due to …

As open source development's acceptance has increased, many companies have
incorporated it into heterogeneous development, which creates products by combining …

In this paper, we propose a recommendation approach-TaskAllocator-in order to predict the
assignment of incoming tasks to potential befitting roles. The proposed approach, identifying …

Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become a mainstream trend in industry. An
increasing number of companies, irrespective of size and location, have been getting their …

Twelve years ago a group of practitioners and researchers came together to try to solve
problems relating specifically to Global Software Engineering (GSE) practice. This paper …

Context Global software development (GSD) promises high‐quality software at low cost.
GSD enables around‐the‐clock development to achieve maximum production in a short …

Abstract Context Face-to-Face (F2F) interaction is a strong means to foster social
relationships and effective knowledge sharing within a team. However, communication in …

Literature is producing a considerable amount of papers which focus on the risks,
challenges and solutions of global software development (GSD). However, the influence of …