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Global Software Development and Quality Management: A Systematic Review

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops (OTM 2013)

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This paper presents a systematic literature review of global software development (GSD) and quality management aspects. The main focus is to highlight the current research and practice direction in these areas. The results have been limited to peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles, published between 2000 and 2011. The analysis reports that major studies have been performed in quality and process management, while verification and validation issues of GSD can only get limited attention among researchers. This indicates the need for future research (quantitative and qualitative) in these areas.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Deepti Mishra

  2. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

  3. Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

  4. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain

    Cristina Casado-Lumbreras

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Mishra, D., Mishra, A., Colomo-Palacios, R., Casado-Lumbreras, C. (2013). Global Software Development and Quality Management: A Systematic Review. In: Demey, Y.T., Panetto, H. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops. OTM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41033-8_39

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