Paper Info
Title
The changing balance of technology and process: A case study on a combined setting of model-driven development and classical C coding.
Abstract
The increasing flexibility in industry leads to an ecosystem of change, affecting the balance of processes and technology as well as the developers who have to cope with the change. Furthermore, the change itself might impact the ability to use quantitative methods to learn from previous experience. The goal of this study is to better understand the ecosystem of mutual impacts and changes of process and technologies as well as how developers perceive a technology setting and deal with its change. Therefore, we conducted a case study at Ericsson, performing a series of interviews among 6 employees (senior developers and architects). We identified a time line of changes that happened over 7years. A set of observations about the relation between processes and tooling, and observations about developer's perceptions of the technology settings, and their strategy to deal with these changing technology settings. We discuss how the observed change impacts the ability to perform quantitative evaluations of technology and processes. The findings show that a bad choice of technologies can lead to unexpected impact on team dynamics. Furthermore, change happens so regular that it needs to be considered when collecting data for a quantitative evaluation of, eg, productivity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/smr.1863
JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
case study,development technologies,empirical investigation,software process
Systems engineering,Model driven development,Quantitative Evaluations,Technology education,Coding (social sciences),Software development process,Engineering,Time line,Perception
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29.0
11.0
2047-7473
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Regina Hebig117924.24
Jesper Derehag211.40