An Application of the Chains-of-Rare-Events Model to Software Development Failure Prediction

Author(s):  
Néstor R. Barraza ◽  
Jonas D. Pfefferman ◽  
Bruno Cernuschi-Frías ◽  
Félix Cernuschi

People learn and define their own values to interact in different situations. It is important to know the human values (HV) for dealing humans in better ways. HV can also be helpful for software development managers to make right decisions for managing their teams well. Unfortunately, to a great extent, the very factor is ignored in software engineering (SE). This study aims to provide a basic motivation of the topic to SE researchers to carry out some empirical evidences to control software development failures through respecting software developers’ HV. In order to operationalize the study, few disciplines, in which the HV are empirically discussed, are considered to replicate the impacts on software development. The factor HVs is well connected with satisfaction and improvement outcomes in sociology, education and management studies. Likewise, this study also literates the importance of HVs for successful software project development. This study concludes that HV can form strong correlations with software development roles and can be used to minimize the software failure


Author(s):  
Abdullah Khanfor ◽  
Ye Yang ◽  
Gregg Vesonder ◽  
Guenther Ruhe ◽  
Dave Messinger

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Requirement Analysis is an important phase in software development. Failure or success of software product depends upon requirement analysis phases. In this paper, a detailed critical analysis was conducted to find out the expected issues behind software project’s failure. It has been found that several issues are associated with this phase such as: customer ambiguity, requirement changing during the project etc. The study was conducted by questionnaires to figure out these issues in the Pakistani software industry.


Nowadays, software development failure has become a very serious problem. Inaccurate time estimation is one of the major causes of the software development failure. Inaccurate time estimation mostly creates time pressure that causes several negative impacts on software developers’ mental and physical health. The past studies had also believed that burnouts and job turnover problems happened due to time pressure. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore time pressure with human behavior to see if they can make any relation. By this way, one can explore the hidden patterns between time pressure and human behavior in software engineering. In order to carry out the study, personality and time pressure studies are explored in general to see if past studies had ever made any space for software domain. Moreover, based on the limited selected studies, the literature review identifies that several authors had correlated the time pressure with personality. Unfortunately, time pressure and software developer personality are not specifically studied together in software engineering. For that reason, this study leaves some recommendations for researchers to contribute in the very topic to make software development better.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Wampler ◽  
Emilie Roth ◽  
Randall Whitaker ◽  
Kendall Conrad ◽  
Mona Stilson ◽  
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