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Web and Distributed Software Development Risks Management: WeDRisk Approach

Authors:
Ayad Keshlaf
Steve Riddle

Keywords: software risk management; web development; distributed development; software reliability; WeDRisk approach

Abstract:
In spite of a variety of software risk management approaches, the software industry is still suffering from associated risks. Web and distributed software development is an example, where there are specific challenges and risk areas, which need to be addressed, considered and managed. In this paper we present a list of potential web and distributed risks, which we have identified based on their challenges and characteristics. We survey a number of software risk management approaches and identify their weaknesses and strengths for managing web and distributed development risks. Examples of weaknesses that we identify include the treatment of cultural issues, geographic location, and process and product perspectives. The identified strengths are quite general and only few of them are targeted to web and distributed developments. Following the review of strengths and weaknesses we present an approach called WeDRisk, which we propose in order to tackle the weaknesses of the existing approaches, and to accommodate the continuously evolving challenges to web and distributed software development. WeDRisk tries to cover some aspects and perspectives, which have not been covered up to now.

Pages: 447 to 460

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2010. Used with permission.

Publication date: April 6, 2011

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628