How Do Process and Team Interaction Depend on Development Technologies?: A Case Study on a Combined Setting of Model-driven Development and Classical C Coding
Paper in proceeding, 2016

Context: To be more flexible, companies call more and more for an independence between development tools and processes. To enable this form of decoupling we need to understand the interrelation of processes and development tools. However, knowledge about that field is rare. Goal: The goal of this study is to better understand how technologies in use might impact the processes and team interaction. Method: Therefore, we conducted a case study at Ericsson using grounded theory, performing a series of interviews among 6 senior developers and architects. The investigated case is special in that alternative tooling/language settings are used to build the different parts of the same system. Results: As a result we identified several relations between process and tooling. We further report on additional observation about human factors involved in development. Conclusion: The findings show that a bad choice of technologies can lead to unexpected impacts on team dynamics.

Development technologies

Empirical investigation

Case study

Software process

Author

Regina Hebig

University of Gothenburg

Jesper Derehag

Ericsson

International Conference on Software and System Process, ICSSP 2016; Austin; United States; 14 May 2016 through 15 May 2016

16-25

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

Computer Systems

DOI

10.1145/2904354.2904366

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