Introduction : Every day you hear it on the news, you read it in the papers, you overhear people talking about it and in every single instance the word globalization seems to have a different meaning. So, what is globalization? At a top political and economic level, globalization is the process of denationalization of markets, politics and legal systems, i.e., the rise of the so-called global economy. The consequences of this political and economic restructuring on local economies, human welfare and environment are the subject of an open debate among international organizations, governmental institutions and the academic world.
Abstract
Global Software Development is an area that has been recently highlighted. Translation is usually an issue that people associate with adapting software for a specific country but it is much more than that. Through text representation and data formatting you can go deep into cultural aspects that affect the user interface and even the core functionality.In this thesis we will discuss just how these matters can affect development of global software. To carry out the investigation we analyzed current approaches and references and build up an extended methodology with suggestions to develop global software applications
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. PURPOSE
1.2. GOAL
1.3. PROBLEM
1.4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5. INPUT
1.6. OUTPUT
1.7. TARGET AUDIENCE
1.8. DELIMITATION
1.9. METHOD
2. BACKGROUND
2.1. THE IMPORTANCE OF GLOBALIZATION
2.2. ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
2.2.1. Text representation
2.2.2. Data formatting
2.2.3. Cultural aspects
3. HOFSTEDE’S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
3.1. HOFSTEDE’S DIMENSIONS
3.1.1. Power distance
3.1.2. Individualism or collectivism
3.1.3. Uncertainty Avoidance
3.1.4. Masculinity-Femininity
3.1.5. The long or short term orientation (LT)
4. ESTABLISHED APPROACHES
4.1. ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
4.1.1 Carey’s approach
4.1.2. Hyperion solution
4.1.3 Yeo’s approach
4.2. CULTURAL ISSUES
4.2.1 Carey’s approach
4.2.2 Hyperion solution
4.2.3. Yeo’s approach
4.3. INTERNATIONAL INTERFACE
4.3.1 Carey’s approach
4.3.2 Hyperion solution
4.3.3. Yeo’s approach
4.4. DOCUMENTATION
4.4.1. Carey’s approach
4.4.2. Hyperion solution
4.4.3 Yeo’s approach
4.5. TESTING, QA
4.5.1 Carey’s approach
4.5.2. Hyperion solution
4.5.3. Yeo’s approach
4.6. SUMMARY
4.6.1 Carey’s approach
4.6.2 Hyperion approach
4.6.3. Yeo’s approach
5. RESULTS
5.1. EXTENDED METHODOLOGY
5.1.1. Input
5.1.2. The Matrix
5.1.3. Output
5.2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
5.2.1. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions influence on global software development
5.2.2. Is a deeper localization needed?
6. DISCUSSION
6.1 THE CHOICE OF WATERFALL
6.2 WEB APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
6.3 FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THE EXTENDED METHODOLOGY
6.4. FUTURE RESEARCH
7. CONCLUSIONS
8. LITERATURE
9. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
10. APPENDIX
Author: Andreas Hellström, Anatoly Chervyakov
Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology
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