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What Aspects of Context Should Be Described in Case Studies About Software Teams? Preliminary Results from a Mapping Study

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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In this article, we report the findings of a systematic literature mapping study aimed at identifying contextual factors that should be described in case studies about teams in software engineering. As a result, we identified 26 factors, which we organized in five dimensions: characteristics of individuals, groups, team processes, projects and organizations. These dimensions and factors can guide future reports to present better descriptions of the context in which their software teams are studied.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Maria Teresa Baldassarre

  2. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    César França

  3. Center of Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Fabio Q. B. da Silva

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Anh Nguyen Duc

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

    Sousuke Amasaki

  6. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen

A Appendix: List of Selected Papers

A Appendix: List of Selected Papers

  • [P1] T. Dybå and T. Dingsøyr. “Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review”. IST, 50 (9–10), pp. 833–859 2008.

  • [P2] C. Tolfo and R. Wazlawick. “The influence of organizational culture on the adoption of extreme programming”. JSS, 81 (11), pp. 1955–1967 2008.

  • [P3] T. Chow and D. Cao. “A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects”. JSS, 81 (6), pp. 961–971 2008.

  • [P4] S. Misra, V. Kumar and U. Kumar. “Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices”. JSS, 82 (11), pp. 1869–1890 2009.

  • [P5] L. Mcleod, S. Macdonell and B. Doolin. “Qualitative research on software development: a longitudinal case study methodology”. EMSE, 16 (4), pp. 430–459 2011.

  • [P6] N. Anh, D. Cruzes and R. Conradi. “Dispersion, coordination and performance in global software teams: a systematic review”. ESEM, pp. 129–138 2012.

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Baldassarre, M.T., França, C., da Silva, F.Q.B. (2016). What Aspects of Context Should Be Described in Case Studies About Software Teams? Preliminary Results from a Mapping Study. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_61

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