scholarly journals Software development: do good manners matter?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Destefanis ◽  
Marco Ortu ◽  
Steve Counsell ◽  
Michele Marchesi ◽  
Roberto Tonelli
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time.

scholarly journals Software development: do good manners matter?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Destefanis ◽  
Marco Ortu ◽  
Steve Counsell ◽  
Michele Marchesi ◽  
Roberto Tonelli
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time.

scholarly journals Software development: do good manners matter?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Destefanis ◽  
Marco Ortu ◽  
Steve Counsell ◽  
Stephen Swift ◽  
Michele Marchesi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open-source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue.

Practical Experience in Customization for a Software Development Process for Small Companies Based on RUP Process and MSF

2011 ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Fernandes del Maschi ◽  
Luciano S. Souza ◽  
Mauro de Mesquita Spínola ◽  
Wilson Vendramel ◽  
Ivanir Costa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Engineering Process ◽  
Unified Process

The quality in software projects is related the deliveries that are adjusted to the use, and that they take care of to the objectives. In this way, Brazilian organizations of software development, especially the small and medium ones, need to demonstrate to future customers whom an initial understand of the business problem has enough. This chapter has as objective to demonstrate methodology, strategy, main phases and procedures adopted beyond the gotten ones of a small organization of development of software in the implantation of a Customized Software Engineering Process and of a Tool of Support to the Process in the period of 2004 to 2006 on the basis of rational unified process (RUP) and in the Microsoft solutions framework (MSF).

scholarly journals The Principle of Architecture First in Software Project Management Minimizes the Cost of Software Development Process: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
System Level ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
The Cost

Software architecture involves the structure and organization by which modern system components and subsystems interact to form system and the properties of systems that can best be designed and analyzed at the system level. This paper provides a review of the principles of architecture first approach in software project management and its effect on cost of software development process. This paper reviews the literature and practitioners’ experiences relating to architecture first approach, and advantages of architecture first approach in cost of software development process. This paper also reviews related works about factors that may reduce the cost of software development process. Weobserved parameters related to software architecture that may affect the cost of software development process.The parameters are software (product) delivery time, defect prevention, risk mitigation, and change management. After this, the parameters show that they have their own effect on the software development process. Finally, the paper concludes by describing how those parameters affect the cost of software development process.

scholarly journals The importance of human-computer interaction in the development process of software projects

2015 ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hanefi Calp ◽  
M. Ali Akcayol
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Life Cycle ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Computer Interaction

<p>Today, software industry has a rapid growth. In order to resist the competition increased by this growth, software projects ne0ed to be developed with higher quality and especially user friendly. Therefore, the importance of human-computer interaction emerges clearly. In design and development phases of software projects, the properties of human –which is an important agent for interaction- such as behavioral, cognitive, perceptive, efficiency and physical factors have to be considered. This study aims to express the importance of developing softwares by taking into consideration the human-computer interaction applications. In this context, firstly a wide literature review is made to examine software development process and human-computer interaction in detail, the results obtained by using design methods in this process are explicated and the importance of said interaction is openly expressed with the exemplary applications in the literature. According to the results of the research, especially in software life cycle, it is observed that rules of interaction must be implemented before software development, however, these methods are usually included in software life cycle in the latter stages of software development process. This situation causes the developed softwares to be user unfriendly and of low quality. Furthermore, it is observed that when the design methods used in the scope of human-computer interaction are integrated into software development process during the life cycle, the developed projects are more successful, have better quality and are more user friendly.</p><p> Keywords: Human-computer interaction, software projects, life cycle, software design.</p>

Modeling Software Development Process Complexity

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
Vyron Damasiotis ◽  
Panos Fitsilis ◽  
James F. O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Code Size ◽  
Software Complexity ◽  
Complexity Measurement ◽  
Proposed Model

Modern software systems are growing increasingly complex, requiring increased complexity of software and software development process (SDP). Most software complexity measurement approaches focus on software features such as code size, code defects, number of control paths, etc. However, software complexity measurement should not only focus on code features but on features that cover several aspects of SDP in order to have a more complete approach to software complexity. To implement this approach, an extensive literature review for identifying factors that contribute to the complexity of SDP was performed and seventeen complexity factors were identified. As there were indications that the identified factors were not independent from each other but there were interrelations between them, statistical methods for identifying the underlined relations and refining them were applied, resulting to the final set of measures used in the proposed model. Finally, the proposed model has been tested in five software projects and the results were evaluated.

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