Giray, Görkem ORCID: 0000-0002-7023-9469, Yilmaz, Murat ORCID: 0000-0002-2446-3224, O'Connor, Rory ORCID: 0000-0001-9253-0313 and Clarke, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-4487-627X (2018) The impact of situational context on software process: a case study of a very small-sized company in the online advertising domain. In: 25th European Conference on Software Process Improvement, 5-7 Sept 2018, Bilbao, Spain. ISBN 978-3-319-97924-3
Abstract
A primary concern of software development is selecting a suitable methodology to implement a software project. However, this selection is affected by many factors, with evidence suggesting that a specific set of factors defines a specific situational context for a project. This situational context leads to a project-specific software process. In this paper, we report on our analysis of a very small-sized company’s current software process based on a reference framework that identifies the factors of a situational context. The outcome of our case study confirms the earlier findings that a software process is highly dependent on situational factors. The company has a suitable situational context (such as very small-sized, experienced, skilled, cohesive team with low turnover) to apply agile practices and its software process is more close to an agile rather than plan-driven approach. Moreover, the company is continuously adopting its software process to the situational factors changing from project to project and over time.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
---|---|
Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Software process; Software development process; Situational context; Situational factor; Process selection; Process tailoring |
Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre |
Published in: | 25th European Conference, EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) 896. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-97924-3 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_3 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 The Authors. |
ID Code: | 29093 |
Deposited On: | 26 Sep 2023 14:53 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 28 Nov 2023 12:29 |
Documents
Full text available as:
Preview |
PDF
- Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader
Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 299kB |
Downloads
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Archive Staff Only: edit this record