Practices around Customization of Standard Systems.

Yvonne Dittrich; Sebastien Vaucouleur

doi:10.1145/1370114.1370124

Practices around Customization of Standard Systems.

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Abstract

More and more software systems are developed by customizing a standard product that provide the major part of the functionality. The customization of Enterprise Resource Planning systems is such a product based software development practice. Little empirical research on the specificities of these software development practices is available. We present an empirical study on customization practices based on video recordings, interviews and a survey. The observed and reported practices challenge some of the principles of software engineering. Based on the analysis, we discuss the specificity of this kind of development, the role of communities of practice, and the resulting challenges for the field of software engineering.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering 2008, : CHASE '08, Leipzig, Germany May 13 - 13, 2008
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2008
Pages	37-40
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-60558-039-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1370114.1370124
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	ICSE 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering - Leipzig, Germany Duration: 10 May 2008 → 18 May 2008 Conference number: 13

Conference

Conference	ICSE 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering
Number	13
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Leipzig
Period	10/05/2008 → 18/05/2008

Keywords

Enterprise Resource Planning
Customization Practices
Software Development
Empirical Study
Communities of Practice

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ESP: Designing Evolvable Software Products
Dittrich, Y. (PI), Sestoft, P. (CoI), Unphon, H. (CoI), Vaucouleur, S. (CoI) & Rhiger, M. (CoI)
Ministry of Higher Education and Science
01/07/2006 → 30/06/2008
Project: Research

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Dittrich, Y & Vaucouleur, S 2008, Practices around Customization of Standard Systems. in Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering 2008,: CHASE '08, Leipzig, Germany May 13 - 13, 2008. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 37-40, ICSE 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering, Leipzig, Germany, 10/05/2008. https://doi.org/10.1145/1370114.1370124

Practices around Customization of Standard Systems. / Dittrich, Yvonne; Vaucouleur, Sebastien.
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering 2008,: CHASE '08, Leipzig, Germany May 13 - 13, 2008. Association for Computing Machinery, 2008. p. 37-40.

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