Volume 9, Issue 2, November 2014, Pages 565–572
Muhammad Naeem1, Salman Qadri2, Rana Muhammad Saleem3, Rab Nawaz Bashir4, and Yasir Ghafoor5
1 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
2 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
3 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
4 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
5 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Globalization has embraced the world business, even the software development industry also affected. In order to exploit the universe talent there is major trend of offshore development, testing and for other quality assurance activities. Organization in order to save costs, and use specialized expertise has focus on distributed software development and quality assurance practices. Along with certain advantages there may be certain loopholes and problems, if the distributed process and teams are not managed in a proper ways. The focus of the study is to provide a framework for understanding and supporting the management of geographical distributed quality assurance teams. The proposed framework stresses the need of effective team organization, configuration management, collaboration, coordination and communication across team members. The study also evaluates the performances of team geographical distributed teams while applying these parameters.
Author Keywords: Quality Assurance, Geographically Distributed software Quality Assurance (GDQA), Configuration Management, Coordination, Collaboration, Communication.
Muhammad Naeem1, Salman Qadri2, Rana Muhammad Saleem3, Rab Nawaz Bashir4, and Yasir Ghafoor5
1 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
2 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
3 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
4 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
5 Department of Computer Science & IT, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Globalization has embraced the world business, even the software development industry also affected. In order to exploit the universe talent there is major trend of offshore development, testing and for other quality assurance activities. Organization in order to save costs, and use specialized expertise has focus on distributed software development and quality assurance practices. Along with certain advantages there may be certain loopholes and problems, if the distributed process and teams are not managed in a proper ways. The focus of the study is to provide a framework for understanding and supporting the management of geographical distributed quality assurance teams. The proposed framework stresses the need of effective team organization, configuration management, collaboration, coordination and communication across team members. The study also evaluates the performances of team geographical distributed teams while applying these parameters.
Author Keywords: Quality Assurance, Geographically Distributed software Quality Assurance (GDQA), Configuration Management, Coordination, Collaboration, Communication.
How to Cite this Article
Muhammad Naeem, Salman Qadri, Rana Muhammad Saleem, Rab Nawaz Bashir, and Yasir Ghafoor, “Geographically Distributed Software Quality Assurance Team Management,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 565–572, November 2014.
