论文标题
全球软件工程研究中的主题和处理：系统快照
Topics and Treatments in Global Software Engineering Research: A Systematic Snapshot
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论文摘要
这项研究对有关全球软件工程（GSE）的最新文献进行了分析。我们使用新的系统快照映射（SSM）技术检查了GSE研究的当前状态。我们分析了2011年1月至2012年6月之间在同行评审的会议，期刊和讲习班上发表的275篇论文。我们的结果通过将研究分类为预定义的类别，提供了有关GSE的最新文献的粗粒概述。我们还遵循并扩展了几个先前的分类，以支持我们的数据综合。我们的结果表明，目前GSE研究的重点是管理和基础设施相关的因素。大多数研究都是使用访谈，调查，现场研究和案例研究等方法在组织层面进行的。我们使用国际网络分析来确认美国和印度是GSE的主要参与者，美国 - 印度的合作是最常研究的，其次是美国 - 中国。特定的国家组成了报道的GSE项目地点。相比之下，这些研究尚未涵盖包括中亚，南亚（印度除外），非洲和东南亚在内的地区。尽管已经发表了大量与GSE相关的研究，但目前它们却非常狭窄地专注于探索性研究和解释理论。关键的研究范式未被触及，这可能是由于缺乏在GSE进行此类研究的标准和原则。缺乏反应性研究，实验和模拟以及对评估方法的比较关注，所有这些都表明在GSE环境中正在测试现有的工具，方法和方法。但是，这些解决方案可能无法扩展以涵盖与GSE相关的问题，或者可能会忽略GSE特定的因素/方面。
This study presents an analysis of the most recent literature addressing global software engineering (GSE). We examine the current state of GSE research using a new Systematic Snapshot Mapping (SSM) technique. We analysed 275 papers published between January 2011 and June 2012 in peer-reviewed conferences, journals and workshops. Our results provide a coarse-grained overview of the very recent literature addressing GSE, by classifying studies into predefined categories. We also follow and extend several prior classifications to support our synthesis of the data. Our results reveal that currently GSE studies are focused on Management and Infrastructure related factors. Most of the studies are conducted at the organizational level using methods such as interviews, surveys, field studies and case studies. We use inter-country network analysis to confirm that the USA and India are major players in GSE, with USA-India collaborations being the most frequently studied, followed by USA-China. Specific groups of countries have dominated the reported GSE project locations. In contrast, regions including Central Asia, South Asia (except India), Africa and South East Asia have not been covered in these studies. While a considerable number of GSE-related studies have been published they are currently quite narrowly focused on exploratory research and explanatory theories. The critical research paradigm has been untouched, perhaps due to a lack of criteria and principles for carrying out such research in GSE. An absence of formulative research, experimentation and simulation, and a comparative focus on evaluative approaches, all suggest that existing tools, methods and approaches from related fields are being tested in the GSE context. However, these solutions may not scale to cover GSE-related issues or may overlook factors/facets specific to GSE.
