In this position paper, challenges and issues with collaborative global software development and education are discussed. Suggestions are made to improve and strengthen software engineering education to adapt to it

Liu, Xiaoqing Frank

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Missouri University of Science and Technology Scholars' Mine Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works Computer Science 01 Jan 2005 Collaborative Global Software Development and Education Xiaoqing Frank Liu Missouri University of Science and Technology, fliu@mst.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/comsci_facwork  Part of the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation X. F. Liu, "Collaborative Global Software Development and Education," Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan 2005. The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.56 This Article - Conference proceedings is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars' Mine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works by an authorized administrator of Scholars' Mine. This work is protected by U. S. Copyright Law. Unauthorized use including reproduction for redistribution requires the permission of the copyright holder. For more information, please contact scholarsmine@mst.edu. Collaborative Global Software Development and Education AbstractIn this position paper, challenges and issues with collaborative global software development and education are discussed. Suggestions are made to improve and strengthen software engineering education to adapt to it. 1. BackgroundWith the need of reduced software product development cost and time and improved software quality, software products are increasingly developed via collaborations across people, organizations, and countries [1, 2]. Although software implementation tasks may be moved from countries with high labor costs to countries with low costs relatively easily due to internet and common programming environments, tasks requiring intensive customer interaction, such as requirements analysis and specification, software design, and verification and validation, are hard to migrate. Therefore, software developers across countries must collaborate effectively to develop software products globally. In global software development, geographically and culturally diverse groups come together to develop complex software products. However, analysts, developers, and testers with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds, expectations and goals in geographically distributed locations often have a difficult time to collaborate. Many conflicts exist in tasks in each phase in a global software development life cycle, such as requirements analysis, priority setting, task assignment, system integration, schedule, resource allocation, time management in multiple time zones, and communication. Due to many conflicts, global software development projects are often more complex to manage than the most complex in-house projects [2]. Conflict should be managed and software development activities should be coordinated effectively in many geographically distributed locations across countries so that software products can be developed on time, within budget, and in high quality.  2. Collaborative Global Software EducationCurrently global software development results in declined demands for programming professionals and declined enrollment in many computer science programs in developed countries, and a software technology boom in several developing countries, such as India and China. In order to deal with the challenges in developed countries, software engineering education process needs be improved and strengthened. Some of actions listed below may help to address the issue. 1. Enhance software engineering programs to incorporate collaborative global software development processes. 2. Develop collaborative software engineering programs by establishing a partnership among universities and industrial software companies to equip students with advanced software environments and tools. 3. Strengthen and expand curricula on software development tasks which are hard to migrate, such as global software project management, global software process, requirements analysis, software design, and verification and validation. 4. Develop collaborative software engineering programs by establishing a partnership among software engineering programs across countries. 5. Enhance and develop software certificate programs 6. Enhance distant learning software engineering programs References1. M. Bass and D. Paulish, “Global software development process research at Siemens”, Proc. of Intl Workshop on global software development, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2. N. Zamiska, “Quality lures software outsourcing”, the Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2005. Xiaoqing (Frank) LiuDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Missouri – Rolla fliu@umr.edu Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC’05) 0730-3157/05 $20.00 © 2005 IEEE 

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