An investigation of software development productivity in China

  • Authors:

  • Mei He;Mingshu Li;Qing Wang;Ye Yang;Kai Ye

  • Affiliations:

  • Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Acade ...;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Software productivity conveys fundamental information for manydecision making processes, such as in-house development benchmarking andoutsourcing strategic planning. However, there is a lack of statistical results onthis matter with respect to Chinese software industry. In this paper, through theanalysis of 999 industry projects in China, we seek to develop in-depth andcomprehensive understanding about software productivity status in China, byidentifying significant influential factors and examining their true effects basedon our dataset. As a result, Organization is identified as the most significant factor,followed by Development type, Business area, Region, Language, Projectsize and Team size. Further assessment and findings are also presented withrelevant recommendations to increase productivity and improve softwareprocesses.