CONTEXT – Global Software Development (GSD) is an emerging trend to perform software development activities across national boundaries. Despite of the benefits gained from GSD, there are certain challenges associated with it. Amongst these challenges one of the critical challenge, which has comparatively little attention in software engineering research community, is the integration of products...

Global Software Development (GSD) has become the norm in product development. In GSD projects, controlling and management activities are increasingly important as the products are developed in dynamic environments where requirements, priorities, participating sites, development processes, tools and even partners are continuously changing. Up-to-date information on project status is critical to ...

Global Software Development (GSD) has gained popularity lately and challenges and research opportunities appeared. The development team’s physical distribution imposes challenges related to awareness support during collaboration. According to the 3C collaboration model, awareness intermediates communication, cooperation, and coordination. In this paper, we present a systematic review of the lit...

Nowadays, large projects are developed by globally distributed developer teams. Global Software Development (GSD) is currently not supported by appropriate tools but with the tools designed for on-site development. In this work we analyze benefits of a peer-to-peer approach to integrated environment for GSD, analyze its requirements from selected industrial field studies, and present the archit...

Global software development with the agile or waterfall development process has been taken into use in many companies. GSD offers benefits but also new challenges without known, documented solutions. The goal of this research is to present current best practices for GSD in the form of process patterns for project management, evaluated by using a scenario-based assessment method. The best practi...

Global Software Development (GSD) is gradually becoming the standard practice in the software industry. The core reasons for popularity of this approach are the substantial reduction in cost and development time, access to specialized skilled manpower across the globe, strategic flexibility and availability of support to perform 24/7 operations. Despite several benefits of GSD, there is still r...

CONTEXT – Global Software Development (GSD) is a modern software engineering paradigm adopted by many client organisations in developed countries to get high quality product at low cost in low wage countries. Production of high quality software is considered as one of the key factor in the rapid growth of GSD. However GSD projects have put new challenges to practitioners and researchers. In ord...

The requirements elicitation process is particularly difficult in Global Software Development (GSD) environments owing principally to cultural differences and communication problems derived from the geographical distance that separates stakeholders. For this reason it is necessary to train professionals in the skills needed to confront a requirements elicitation process in a GSD environment. In...

Global Software development (GSD) is gaining popularity as it helps in saving cost and reduces time to market. GSD faces various challenges like communication problems, time-zone differences and cultural differences. Agile principles are used as a means to increase production rate by making processes more responsive to change. Since success of using agile methodologies is dependent on communica...

The adoption of Global Software Development (GSD) models by software development companies is growing continuously. A variety of challenges such as temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distance are hindering global organizations to achieve potential benefits. As a result, organizations need support in how to overcome the challenges. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically focu...