Paper Info
Title
Software Modernization Decision Criteria: An Empirical Study
Abstract
Decisions regarding software evolution strategies such as modernizations are economically important. We present results of our empirical study of the views of decision makers. We have asked their views of the relative importance of 49 software modernization decision criteria. We have gathered data from Finnish software industry. There were 26 experts from 8 organizations involved. They were mainly upper or middle level managers. Our study shows that there is a large set of criteria which should be taken into account, and that those studied by us provide a good coverage of the relevant ones. We list the top-twenty criteria. We also performed acluster analysis which produced two groups of subjects. Views of the decision makers in software user andsoftware supplier organizations were different. We suggest that decision maker's work process could be enhanced by taking into account the received lessons.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/CSMR.2005.50
CSMR
Keywords
Field
DocType
middle level manager,finnish software industry,good coverage,software modernization decision criteria,empirical study,software user andsoftware supplier,large set,software modernization decision criterion,software evolution strategy,acluster analysis,decision maker,cluster analysis,computer science,logic,software evolution,statistical analysis,investments,software maintenance,environmental economics,information systems,information technology
Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Systems engineering,Information technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Software prototyping,Software,Software maintenance,Software evolution,Empirical research,Software modernization
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2304-8
10
0.69
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jussi Koskinen112213.44
Jarmo J. Ahonen214516.51
Henna Sivula3213.80
Tero Tilus4213.80
Heikki Lintinen5213.47
Irja Kankaanpaa6171.27