A survey of soft computing applications in global software development

Abstract

Global software development is an example of the modern age. Team members split geographically, working in different time zones, communicate simultaneously and exchange information regardless of physical boundaries and time difference. Different organizations are distributing their software development processes on national and continental lines. Team members work across space, time and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technologies. In order to obtain robust solutions at reasonable costs in different software development processes like software reliability, quality, maintenance, effort and different project management activities, different researchers used soft computing techniques. In this paper several existing research articles are reviewed that deal with the applications of soft computing in software development areas and provides future research directions.