posted on 2013-11-14, 12:00authored byMiguel J Monasor, Aurora Vizcaíno, Mario Piattini, John Noll, SARAH BEECHAM
Sources of Global Software Development (GSD)
information, such as academic literature, often focus on highlevel
issues rather than on specific problems. Researchers tend
to generalize problems and solutions; however, practitioners
and instructors frequently need to identify real low-level
scenarios and patterns in an effort to study specific problems
and their solutions.
We propose a method for collecting and defining GSD scenarios
and related patterns. Scenarios depicting events that happen in
certain GSD contexts associated with communication,
coordination are central to this method. In this paper we show
how problems and solutions extracted from these events can
lead to the definition of patterns. Patterns describe generalized
information that can be re-used in similar contexts.
To facilitate knowledge sharing, we have integrated this pattern
model into a GSD Community Web intended to promote
collaboration between industry and academia. News, resources
and discussion forums on GSD topics are also available through
this website.