Art of Software Testing
IEEE Software
The software engineering impacts of cultural factors on multi-cultural software development teams
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track1 - Volume 1
Managing cross-cultural issues in global software outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration
Cultural differences in software engineering
Proceedings of the 2nd India software engineering conference
Software Testing and Global Industry: Future Paradigms
Software Testing and Global Industry: Future Paradigms
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Empirical evidence in global software engineering: a systematic review
Empirical Software Engineering
Postcolonial computing: a lens on design and development
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards contextualised software engineering education: an African perspective
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Studying human and social aspects of testing in a service-based software company: case study
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Plea against cultural stereotypes
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
Outsourced, Offshored Software-Testing Practice: Vendor-Side Experiences
ICGSE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Global software testing under deadline pressure: Vendor-side experiences
Information and Software Technology
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Culture appears to have a greater influence on software-engineering practice than originally envisioned. Many recent studies have reported that cultural factors greatly impact global software-engineering (GSE) practice. However, many of these studies characterize culture as a set of dimensions (e.g., Hofstede's), which significantly limits the meaning of culture. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of such a dimensional approach to studying culture by highlighting the aspects of culture that such dimensions fail to capture. Next, we present the idea of thinking of culture in terms of cultural models (inspired by Shore's work), and illustrate this idea by presenting cultural models adopted by the software-engineering domain. Then, based on this idea of cultural models, we present a conceptual reference framework for studying the influence of culture in the global software-engineering setting. Finally, we present some examples that use this framework, which illustrates the benefits of such a framework for studying culture's influence on GSE practice.