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A Tool for Training Students and Engineers in Global Software Development Practices

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Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG 2010)

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Abstract

Global Software Development (GSD) is an emerging trend in which virtual teams work on the same projects at a distance. Despite the advantages of this shift, the collaboration between distant members becomes more difficult. Team members interact by using collaborative tools, and this collaboration is affected by time, cultural and language differences. These drawbacks lead to the need to train students and software engineers in the new collaborative skills required.

These skills can only be trained by involving learners in practical experiences, but this is not always possible since it necessitates collaboration with distant institutions (universities/firms). We have focused our work on the development of a tool with which to train these skills through the use of a virtual training environment for GSD that avoids this difficulty by placing learners in virtual GSD scenarios in which they will develop the skills needed to work on global software projects.

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  1. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, 02007, Albacete, Spain

    Miguel J. Monasor

  2. Alarcos Research Group, Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Aurora Vizcaíno & Mario Piattini

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  1. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Department of Systems Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Gwendolyn Kolfschoten

  2. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Informations- und Technikmanagement, Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft (IAW), Universitätsstr. 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany

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Monasor, M.J., Vizcaíno, A., Piattini, M. (2010). A Tool for Training Students and Engineers in Global Software Development Practices. In: Kolfschoten, G., Herrmann, T., Lukosch, S. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15714-1_14

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