Paper Info
Title
The Effect Of Time Zone Difference On Asynchronous Communications In Global Software Development
Abstract
Working collaboratively across time zone differences is an important issue for distributed software development projects. In such work, computer mediated communications, especially mailing lists, have been widely used for global software development. It is commonly agreed on that time zone differences have a negative impact on real time communications, such as instant messaging and video conferences. However, research results are unclear on whether time zone differences can cause excessive delays in asynchronous communication mediums, such as emails and discussion boards. This paper studies the effect of time zone differences through mining and investigating the Linux kernel mailing list archive. We extract time zone differences and message communication delays between developers. Statistical tests are used to analyse and identify correlations. Our study shows that within the Linux project, time zone differences between developers have a significant effect on short-term email communication delays of 24 hours or less.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY
time zone difference effects, asynchronous communications, mailing lists, global software development, follow the sun workflow
Field
DocType
Volume
Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Systems engineering,Mailing list,Computer science,Time zone,Global software development,Discussion board,Distributed software development,Multimedia,Statistical hypothesis testing,Linux kernel
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0952-8091
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liguo Yu128429.33
Zhong Guan220.49
srini ramaswamy333745.77