Software Startups -- A Research Agenda
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12816v1
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:20:21 GMT
- Title: Software Startups -- A Research Agenda
- Authors: Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Pekka Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh
Nguyen-Duc, Syed M. Ali Shah, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Guido H. Baltes, Kieran
Conboy, Eoin Cullina, Denis Dennehy, Henry Edison, Carlos
Fern\'andez-S\'anchez, Juan Garbajosa, Tony Gorschek, Eriks Klotins, Laura
Hokkanen, Fabio Kon, Ilaria Lunesu, Michele Marchesi, Lorraine Morgan, Markku
Oivo, Christoph Selig, Pertti Sepp\"anen, Roger Sweetman, Pasi Tyrv\"ainen,
Christina Ungerer, Agust\'in Yag\"ue
- Abstract summary: This paper's research agenda focuses on software engineering in startups.
It identifies, in particular, 70+ research questions in the areas of supporting startup engineering activities.
We believe that with this research agenda we cover a wide spectrum of the software startup industry current needs.
- Score: 14.364137253888037
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: 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.
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