Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: First International Conference, SEAFOOD 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, February 5-6, 2007. Revised Papers

Kay Berkling, Michael Geisser (auth.), Bertrand Meyer, Mathai Joseph (eds.)9783540755418

SEAFOOD for Thought Headline-grabbing though it may be, the software industry’s large-scale allo- tion of work to developing countries has not so far generated much technical analysis. Attention is usually limited to the possible political and economic c- sequences, in particular the fears of loss of employment in the West. The aim of the present volume is di?erent. We recognize that o?shore development is here to stay, and not just a result of cost considerations. It is – more accurately – a form of distributed development, relying on advances in communications to let the software industry, in our globalizedworld,bene?t from the wide distribution of human talent. But it is also the source of a new set of challenges, to which accepted software engineering principles and techniques have not completely prepared us. Producing high-quality software on time and within budget is hard enough when the QA team is across the aisle from the core developers, and the customers across the street; what then when the bulk of the development team is across an ocean or two? The ?rst SEAFOOD – Software Engineering Advances For Outsourced and 1 O?shore Development – conference (prompted by an earlier article ) was an – tempt not only to bring software engineering to outsourcing but also to bring outsourcing into the collective consciousness of the software engineering c- munity. This is bene?cial to both sides: successful outsourcing requires strong softwareengineering guidance, but researchin the ?eld must for its part account forthenewworldofsoftwaredevelopment.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom….Pages 1-18
Meeting the Challenge of Communication in Offshore Software Development….Pages 19-26
Testable Requirements for Offshore Outsourcing….Pages 27-43
Introducing Global Supply Chains into Software Engineering Education….Pages 44-58
Turn on Lean Governance … for Return on Outsourcing….Pages 59-66
Making IT Offshoring Work for the Japanese Industries….Pages 67-82
Mastering Dual-Shore Development – The Tools and Materials Approach Adapted to Agile Offshoring….Pages 83-95
Evaluating Collaboration Platforms for Offshore Software Development Scenarios….Pages 96-108
Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Consultancies’ Estimates….Pages 109-113
Questionnaire-Based Risk Assessment Scheme for Japanese Offshore Software Outsourcing….Pages 114-127
An Evaluation Method for Offshore Software Development by Structural Equation Modeling….Pages 128-140
The Value of Outsourced Software….Pages 141-151
Reducing the Cost of Communication and Coordination in Distributed Software Development….Pages 152-169
Survey on Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China….Pages 170-181
Toward Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relationships in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects….Pages 182-199
Back Matter….Pages –