THE DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

摘要

Empirical results on the technical antecedents of quality of software development projects arerare. Examining 592 cross-national projects, this research finds that quality is influenced by teamsize, method used and underlying architecture. The difference in antecedents of quality betweenprojects implemented in earlier periods (before 1999) and in later periods (in or after 1999) issignificant: the quality of early year projects depends on team size, data quality, method andprogramming language used ; the quality of later year projects depends on team size, methodused and CASE tools. Results were obtained using a SEM analysis in AMOS.