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Does distributed development affect software quality?: an empirical case study of Windows Vista

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 8

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1536616.1536639

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It is widely believed that distributed software development is riskier and more challenging than collocated development. Prior literature on distributed development in software engineering and other fields discuss various challenges, including cultural ...

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