Software Engineering Productivity: Concepts, Issues and Challenges

Authors:
Adrián Hernández-López;Ricardo Colomo-Palacios;Ángel García-Crespo;Fernando Cabezas-Isla
Affiliations:
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Venue:
International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Software engineering productivity has been widely studied, but there are many issues that remain unsolved. Interesting works related to new metrics and more replications of past productivity analysis have emerged, however, in order to fulfill these unsolved issues, a consensus about influencing factors and well recognized and useful sets of inputs and outputs for using in measurements must be reached. In this regard, a clear state of the art may shed light on further research in software engineering productivity, which remains a promising research area. In this paper, general concepts of software engineering productivity along with general issues and recent challenges that need further attention from the research community are presented.