Global awareness of sustainability issues lead to researchers and organizations concentrate on applying green computing as solution to achieve sustainability. However, various previous studies mainly focus on hardware solution rather than software. Hence, there is lacking of model in discussing green software development (GSD). This paper suggests that knowledge about activities, practices and ...

Globalization has reached the spheres including, economy and software development, making the approach known as Global Software Development (GSD) increasingly adopted. In that the physical, cultural and temporal distances are inherent. They can introduce advantages such as better use of resources in different places and thus stimulate cooperation for the software development. On the other hand,...

Globally distributed software development projects are on the rise. However, 69% of cross-regional projects fail completely or partially, because of lack of cross-cultural understanding. This paper presents a qualitative study of the impact of communication on Global Software Development (GSD) within firms due to cultural differences. In particular, we provide a model of problems and solutions ...

Global software development (GSD) which is a growing trend in the software industry is characterized by a highly distributed environment. Performing software project management (SPM) in such conditions implies the need to overcome new limitations resulting from cultural, temporal and geographic separation. The aim of this research is to discover and classify the various tools mentioned in liter...

Global Software Development (GSD) projects are characterized by the fact that work is distributed throughout many geographically distanced sites. Software engineering activities in such scenarios face various challenges. Although interpersonal communication is crucial if a common understanding with regard to the system under construction is to be achieved, time separation, cultural diversity an...

Much change has undergone the environment in which software development takes place. To a greater extent, we are experiencing a distributed development environment. In this paper, three approaches to distributed software development are identified and explored – global software development (GSD), open source software development (OSS) and community-based software development (CSD). In a compari...

Global Software Development (GSD) challenges current practices for requirements elicitation because some difficulties to achieve effective communication are aggravated by cultural diversity and the impossibility of having face-to-face meetings. Considering that effective communication would help reduce misunderstandings among stakeholders, and therefore help achieve more committed requirements,...

BACKGROUND Software development processes are often performed by distributed teams which may be separated by great distances. Global software development (GSD) has undergone a significant growth in recent years. The challenges concerning GSD are especially relevant to requirements engineering (RE). Stakeholders need to share a common ground, but there are many difficulties as regards the potent...

One of the dominant characteristics of contemporary software development is the global distribution of tasks, of developers, of information and of technologies. Undoubtedly, such distribution engenders new coordination challenges in the form of distance-related interdependencies. One of the predominant processes of addressing these challenges is electronic meetings (or teleconferences). However...

The trend of software development has changed from local to global software development (GSD) due to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Despite of the benefits gained from GSD, vendors also face challenges during the integration of components developed by global teams in isolation. The objective of the current study is to find out the list of critical challenges/barr...