Agile practices in global software development: A topic modelling approach

Abstract

Agile practices have made a significant impact in Global Software Development (GSD). Literature review papers on agile practices in global software development have been limited by constraints of traditional methods to manually select and analyse research papers. The purpose of this study is to leverage an enhanced automated way to analyse literature to establish dimensions of agile global software development covering around 144 journal articles in SCOPUS. The study unravels key themes latent in the academic literature, identify dominant topics and summarise interpretation around agile practices deployed in global software development setup. This study uses an effective and efficient topic modelling by using LDA method and identifies four dominant clusters.