Studying the influence of culture in global software engineering: Thinking in terms of cultural models

ICIC 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-86

  Shah, Hina ^a   Nersessian, Nancy J ^a   Harrold, Mary Jean ^b   Newstetter, Wendy ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural dimensions; Cultural models; Culture; Qualitative study ethnography; Software engineering; Software testing

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; MACHINERY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; CULTURAL FACTORS; CULTURAL MODELS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; QUALITATIVE STUDY; REFERENCE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DOMAIN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 85025602471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160881.2160894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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