A Survey of Software Development Practices in the New Zealand Software Industry Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:566127, abstract = {We report on the software development techniques used in the New Zealand software industry, paying particular attention to requirements gathering. We surveyed a selection of software companies with a general questionnaire and then conducted in-depth interviews with four companies. Our results show a wide variety in the kinds of companies undertaking software development, employing a wide range of software development techniques. Although our data are not sufficiently detailed to draw statistically significant conclusions, it appears that larger software development groups typically have more well-defined software development processes, spend proportionally more time on requirements gathering, and follow more rigorous testing regimes}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Groves, Lindsay and Nickson, Ray and Reeve, Greg and Reeves, Steve and Utting, Mark}, booktitle = {ASWEC '00: Proceedings of the 2000 Australian Software Engineering Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {566127}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=787231}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2000.844576}, doi = {10.1109/ASWEC.2000.844576}, isbn = {0769506313}, journal = {ASWEC '00: Proceedings of the 2000 Australian Software Engineering Conference}, keywords = {formal\_specification, software\_development}, pages = {189--201}, posted-at = {2006-03-27 19:57:17}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {A Survey of Software Development Practices in the New Zealand Software Industry}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2000.844576}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:566127 L3 - citeulike-article-id:566127 N2 - We report on the software development techniques used in the New Zealand software industry, paying particular attention to requirements gathering. We surveyed a selection of software companies with a general questionnaire and then conducted in-depth interviews with four companies. Our results show a wide variety in the kinds of companies undertaking software development, employing a wide range of software development techniques. Although our data are not sufficiently detailed to draw statistically significant conclusions, it appears that larger software development groups typically have more well-defined software development processes, spend proportionally more time on requirements gathering, and follow more rigorous testing regimes JF - ASWEC '00: Proceedings of the 2000 Australian Software Engineering Conference SN - 0769506313 AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 201 TI - A Survey of Software Development Practices in the New Zealand Software Industry PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - ASWEC '00: Proceedings of the 2000 Australian Software Engineering Conference SP - 189 KW - formal_specification KW - software_development AU - Groves, Lindsay AU - Nickson, Ray AU - Reeve, Greg AU - Reeves, Steve AU - Utting, Mark PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2000.844576 ER -