TY - GEN
T1 - A survey about the impact of requirements engineering practice in small-sized software factories in sinaloa, Mexico
AU - Aguilar, José Alfonso
AU - Zaldívar-Colado, Aníbal
AU - Tripp-Barba, Carolina
AU - Espinosa, Roberto
AU - Misra, Sanjay
AU - Zurita, Carlos Eduardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Scientific literature over time highlighted the relevance of requirements engineering for software development process for desktop, web or mobile applications. Nevertheless, not much contemporary information with regard to current practices in small-sized software factories is available. This is specially true in the region of Sinaloa, México, for that reason this work presents an exploratory study which provides insight into industrial practices in Sinaloa. A combination of both qualitative and quantitative data is collected, using semi-structured interviews and a detailed questionnaire from sixteen software factories. A Pearson (r) correlation analysis was performed independently between the variables Company location (EU), Scope of coverage (AC), Number of workers (NT), Time to live in the market (TV), Projects completed (PY), Time dedicated to activities related to the project (TA), Outdated projects completed (PC) in order to determine the degree of relationship between each of the variables mentioned, with all. A correlation analysis and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed. The quantitative results offers opportunities for further interpretation and comparison.
AB - Scientific literature over time highlighted the relevance of requirements engineering for software development process for desktop, web or mobile applications. Nevertheless, not much contemporary information with regard to current practices in small-sized software factories is available. This is specially true in the region of Sinaloa, México, for that reason this work presents an exploratory study which provides insight into industrial practices in Sinaloa. A combination of both qualitative and quantitative data is collected, using semi-structured interviews and a detailed questionnaire from sixteen software factories. A Pearson (r) correlation analysis was performed independently between the variables Company location (EU), Scope of coverage (AC), Number of workers (NT), Time to live in the market (TV), Projects completed (PY), Time dedicated to activities related to the project (TA), Outdated projects completed (PC) in order to determine the degree of relationship between each of the variables mentioned, with all. A correlation analysis and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed. The quantitative results offers opportunities for further interpretation and comparison.
KW - Pearson correlation analysis
KW - Requirements engineering
KW - Requirements practice
KW - Small-sized software factories
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85049986127
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-95171-3_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-95171-3_26
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049986127
SN - 9783319951706
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 331
EP - 340
BT - Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018 - 18th International Conference, 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Murgante, Beniamino
A2 - Apduhan, Bernady O.
A2 - Rocha, Ana Maria
A2 - Taniar, David
A2 - Tarantino, Eufemia
A2 - Ryu, Yeonseung
A2 - Gervasi, Osvaldo
A2 - Misra, Sanjay
A2 - Stankova, Elena
A2 - Torre, Carmelo M.
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2018
Y2 - 2 July 2018 through 5 July 2018
ER -