ICGSE – Research Papers

“Human-centered global software engineering”

The software industry is increasingly becoming more global with stakeholders and infrastructure distributed across the world. Global Software Engineering (GSE) is still challenging, with a considerable share of global projects not meeting the expectations, especially regarding cost savings and time to market.

Over the past decade, research on GSE uncovered that cultural, geographical, and time differences are related to more challenging collaboration, coordination, and communication in global projects. Organizations have drawn on these insights and developed approaches to mitigate the impact of these differences. However, the challenges faced in globally distributing traditional software engineering persist.

Adopting modern approaches such as agile software development gives rise to new difficulties. Uncovering the issues underlying these difficulties deserves more research effort. Moreover, there is also room for investigating how different factors (social, cultural, organization and technical), their differences and complementarities, may foster innovation, new business opportunities, and new approaches to improve SW project performance and quality.

The Research Papers track of ICGSE 2020 solicits novel, high quality submissions on a wide range of topics related to global software engineering. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Human Aspects of Distributed Development
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Communication, coordination, and collaboration
  • Team building
  • Trust and social relationships
  • Onboarding and socialization of newcomers
• Methods and processes
  • Agile methods in distributed settings
  • Large-scale agile software
  • Lean development
  • DevOps
  • Hybrid processes
  • Remote pair and mob programming
  • Open source software development
  • Crowdsourcing software development
  • SW Architectures and GSE
  • SW Architectures and distributions of component ownership
• Global business strategy
  • Business models
  • Economics
  • Hiring in global settings
  • Industrial offshoring and outsourcing experiences
  • Strategic issues
  • Supplier management
• Technologies supporting distributed cooperative work
  • Collaboration tools
  • ALM/PLM for distributed teams
  • Infrastructure for distributed development
  • Social media support
  • Chatbots
• Education and training
  • Educational studies
  • GSE curricula
  • Lessons learned on the organization of GSE courses
• Emerging Technologies to support/improve/enhance GSE
  • Augmented reality/extended reality
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blockchain
  • Wearables