Interviews on Software Integration

Integration or replacement of existing software systems is inevitable after company mergers and other types of collaborations between organizations. Our present research aims at describing how organizations have accomplished new generations of their existing systems by integrating, merging, or reusing parts of existing systems, be it code, design ideas, or requirements. As an important part of this research, a number of interviews with people from industrial integration projects have been carried out, as well as participation in one case. The present report describes the methodology used to set up these interviews and contains the full notes made during the interviews. No analysis of the results is made.