Research in Global Software Engineering: A Systematic Snapshot
Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell, and Tony Clear

TL;DR
This systematic snapshot analysis of recent GSE literature reveals a focus on management and infrastructure issues using evaluative research, highlighting gaps in experimental, formative, and simulation studies in the field.
Contribution
The paper introduces a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping technique to analyze GSE research trends and identifies gaps in experimental and formative research approaches.
Findings
GSE studies mainly focus on management and infrastructure.
Most research uses interviews, surveys, and case studies.
USA, India, and China are key contributors to GSE research.
Abstract
This paper reports our extended analysis of the recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE), using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. The primary purpose of this work is to understand what issues are being addressed and how research is being carried out in GSE -- and comparatively, what work is not being conducted. We carried out the analysis in two stages. In the first stage we analyzed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012, and in the second stage we augmented our analysis by considering a further 26 papers (from the 2013 International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE'13). Our results reveal that, currently, GSE studies are focused on management- and infrastructure-related factors, using principally evaluative research approaches. Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level, mainly using methods…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOutsourcing and Supply Chain Management · Software Engineering Techniques and Practices · Open Source Software Innovations
