A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Selecting Technically Qualified Distributed Software Development Teams

摘要

In Distributed Software Development, the cooperation among globally distributed development teams can reduce development cost and time. However, such benefits can only be achieved with teams that hold the specific technical background required to implement software modules. As a consequence, it is a key task to contrast technical background possessed by development teams against specified technical requirements expected to implement the various software project modules, making possible to identify the more skilled teams to develop each software module. In such a context, this paper proposes, implements and evaluates a fuzzy-based approach to support selection processes of distributed development teams, which are technically skilled to implement software modules in distributed software projects. As the main contribution, experimental results show that the proposed approach represents and formalizes an extremely complex problem in a systematic and structured way, allowing its direct or customized adoption in selection processes of globally distributed development teams.