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Surveys on the Japan-oriented vendors in China were conducted twice to find out the existent problems in the Japan-oriented offshore software development. From these survey results, four main problems were found out, which were the frequent requirement changes from the product owner, the misunderstanding of the requirement specification in the vendor side, the heavy overhead of the project management and the low-efficiency communication between the product owner and the vendor. Several solutions are proposed to solve these four problems, which mainly consist of the improvement of the offshore software development process and the development of the offshore development supporting tools. The proposed offshore development process is based on the application of the prototype development, the iteration development and the customer test driven development processes. The proposed offshore development supporting tools include the project management assistant tool and the communication assistant tool.
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Zhang, L. et al. (2009). Solution Proposals for Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China. In: Gotel, O., Joseph, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02987-5_4
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