Does Distributed Development Affect Software Quality?: An Empirical Case Study of Windows Vista
By Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar Devanbu, Harald Gall, Brendan Murphy
Communications of the ACM,
August 2009,
Vol. 52 No. 8, Pages 85-93
10.1145/1536616.1536639 Comments
Existing literature on distributed development in software engineering and other fields discusses various challenges, including cultural barriers, expertise transfer difficulties, and communication and coordination overhead.
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