Identifying the factors that influence task allocation in global software development: Preliminary results

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27-29-April-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mahmood, Sajjad ^a   Anwer, Sajid ^a   Niazi, Mahmood ^a   Alshayeb, Mohammad ^a   Richardson, Ita ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Global software development; Systematic literature review; Task allocation; Work distribution

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; TASK ALLOCATION; WORK DISTRIBUTION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84961137129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2745802.2745831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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