Quality in IT Companies and Divisions Project
Project Purpose
IT companies need to focus on creating new features, while delivering software as fast as possible. This makes Quality a challenge for software development organisations that search for the most efficient methods to achieve it. This project aims to identify the software development elements that impact quality assurance the most.
Goals
Goals: this investigation aims at determined the main bottlenecks that prevent companies from achieving maximum software quality. Through the process, it was also important to understand what Quality means in this industry and through which methodologies it is achieved, as well as if companies are aware of Quality's importance, allocating enough resources and creating an environment in which it can thrive.
Project Team
Project Leader:
André
Project Members:
Zhen He (Tianjin University, Tianjin, China), J. Ravikant (SRF, India), Marco S. Reis (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal), Pedro Saraiva (NOVA, Lisbon), Wan Seon Shin (SungKyunKwan University, South-Korea) , Man Li (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China)
Initial results and limitations
The study has showed that the software development elements that impact most on quality assurance are testing, organisational culture and requirements. Those elements are the ones that need most improvement, if companies want to boost their results and maintain high levels of quality in their work. So far an limitation is that about 70% of the respondents were from Europe and only 30% from the rest of the world. This can lead to some bias in the results.
Deliverables
​We expect to publish one or two conference, peer-reviewed, articles and one or two conference/symposium presentation.