Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development, SEAFOOD 2007, Zurich, Switzerland, in February 2007. The 15 revised full papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects and address topical regions such as processes, education, country reports, evaluation and assessment, communication and distribution, as well as tools.

Inhalt

Offshore Software Development: Transferring Research Findings into the Classroom.- Meeting the Challenge of Communication in Offshore Software Development.- Testable Requirements for Offshore Outsourcing.- Introducing Global Supply Chains into Software Engineering Education.- Turn on Lean Governance ... for Return on Outsourcing.- Making IT Offshoring Work for the Japanese Industries.- Mastering Dual-Shore Development - The Tools and Materials Approach Adapted to Agile Offshoring.- Evaluating Collaboration Platforms for Offshore Software Development Scenarios.- Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Consultancies' Estimates.- Questionnaire-Based Risk Assessment Scheme for Japanese Offshore Software Outsourcing.- An Evaluation Method for Offshore Software Development by Structural Equation Modeling.- The Value of Outsourced Software.- Reducing the Cost of Communication and Coordination in Distributed Software Development.- Survey on Japan-Oriented Offshore Software Development in China.- Toward Visualization and Analysis of Traceability Relationships in Distributed and Offshore Software Development Projects.