TY - JOUR
T1 - Software startups-A research agenda
AU - Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
AU - Abrahamsson, Pekka
AU - Wang, Xiao Feng
AU - Nguyen-Duc, Anh
AU - Shah, Syed
AU - Bajwa, Sohaib Shahid
AU - Baltes, Guido H.
AU - Conboy, Kieran
AU - Cullina, Eoin
AU - Dennehy, Denis
AU - Edison, Henry
AU - Fernandez-Sanchez, Carlos
AU - Garbajosa, Juan
AU - Gorschek, Tony
AU - Klotins, Eriks
AU - Hokkanen, Laura
AU - Kon, Fabio
AU - Lunesu, Ilaria
AU - Marchesi, Michele
AU - Morgan, Lorraine
AU - Oivo, Markku
AU - Selig, Christoph
AU - Seppänen, Pertti
AU - Sweetman, Roger
AU - Tyrväinen, Pasi
AU - Ungerer, Christina
AU - Yagüe, Agustin
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited time frames and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models. Software startups are quite distinct from traditional mature software companies, but also from micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, introducing new challenges relevant for software engineering research. This paper's research agenda focuses on software engineering in startups, identifying, in particular, 70+ research questions in the areas of supporting startup engineering activities, startup evolution models and patterns, ecosystems and innovation hubs, human aspects in software startups, applying startup concepts in non-startup environments, and methodologies and theories for startup research. We connect and motivate this research agenda with past studies in software startup research, while pointing out possible future directions. While all authors of this research agenda have their main background in Software Engineering or Computer Science, their interest in software startups broadens the perspective to the challenges, but also to the opportunities that emerge from multi-disciplinary research. Our audience is therefore primarily software engineering researchers, even though we aim at stimulating collaborations and research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. We believe that with this research agenda we cover a wide spectrum of the software startup industry current needs.
AB - Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited time frames and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models. Software startups are quite distinct from traditional mature software companies, but also from micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, introducing new challenges relevant for software engineering research. This paper's research agenda focuses on software engineering in startups, identifying, in particular, 70+ research questions in the areas of supporting startup engineering activities, startup evolution models and patterns, ecosystems and innovation hubs, human aspects in software startups, applying startup concepts in non-startup environments, and methodologies and theories for startup research. We connect and motivate this research agenda with past studies in software startup research, while pointing out possible future directions. While all authors of this research agenda have their main background in Software Engineering or Computer Science, their interest in software startups broadens the perspective to the challenges, but also to the opportunities that emerge from multi-disciplinary research. Our audience is therefore primarily software engineering researchers, even though we aim at stimulating collaborations and research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. We believe that with this research agenda we cover a wide spectrum of the software startup industry current needs.
KW - Research agenda
KW - Software startup
KW - Software-intensive systems
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U2 - 10.5277/e-Inf160105
DO - 10.5277/e-Inf160105
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84994056890
SN - 1897-7979
VL - 10
SP - 89
EP - 123
JO - E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal
JF - E-Informatica Software Engineering Journal
IS - 1
ER -