Distributed software engineering: Research and education challenges

Software development has undergone a major change in recent years, partly but not only as a result of the outsourcing phenomenon. Most software projects today are distributed, raising a whole slate of new issues of management, coordination, licensing, stakeholder involvement, specification, quality assurance (in particular testing) and maintenance. While there has been much discussion of the political and economic aspects of outsourcing, the technical consequences and issues of globalized software development are not completely understood.