COTS developers lead best practice adoption

Author

Cater-Steel, Aileen P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld., Australia

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

30

Abstract

As part of the Australian National Industry Improvement Programme, a software development `best practice´ survey was conducted in Queensland. The questionnaire was adapted from the European Software Institute´s (ESI´s) Best Practice Questionnaire and the preliminary findings from Queensland are compared with the ESI´s 1997 results. This paper explains the background and aims of the study and the execution of the survey, and presents some interesting findings related to levels of adoption of best practice. Analysis of the 205 responses revealed that the leaders in best practice adoption are organisations involved in developing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems. A comparison of the use of software engineering practices is made between COTS and non-COTS developers

Keywords

software development management; software houses; software packages; software process improvement; Australian National Industry Improvement Programme; COTS developers; European Software Institute; Queensland, Australia; best practice adoption; commercial off-the-shelf systems; questionnaire; software development; software engineering practices; survey; Australia; Automatic control; Best practices; Business; Computer industry; Information systems; Management training; Programming; Software maintenance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 Australian

Conference_Location

Canberra, ACT

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0631-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2000.844555

Filename

844555