An empirical study of learning by osmosis in global software engineering

摘要: SUMMARY To teach global software engineering, we devised a complementary distributed module with shared project involving both local and international teams. In teams, students are located at the same university trained in one of two topics. different universities This study empirically investigates whether teams can compensate extra effort required to deal communication, coordination, collaboration issues that characterize engineering projects learning by osmosis (i.e., transferring knowledge among globally on topics). The results show there was no statistically significant difference between performance We assert perform equally well, thanks osmosis. However, our analysis self-reported questionnaire data revealed most participants 70%) would like work real-life project, 74% thought were less efficient, 41% reported lack trust their team members compared members. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.