Defect Detection in a Distributed Software Maintenance Project

A large software project may be distributed over multiple sites when the organization needs resources which are available on a single site. However, previous empirical research in the context of telecommunication organizations has shown a number of disadvantages. In this paper we continue our comparative postmortem analysis on data from a large software massive maintenance project in the information systems domain, which in part has been carried out on a single site, and in part across multiple sites of the same organization. Results show that no significant differences exist among the distributed and collocated work with respect to the ability to detect defects.