How did COVID-19 Impact Software Design Activities in Global Software Engineering — Systematic Review

<p>This dataset is part of research publication <a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194024500098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How did COVID-19 Impact Software Design Activities in Global Software Engineering &mdash; Systematic Review</a>&nbsp;published in <em>International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering</em>. &nbsp;This study systematically analyzes the evolution of research emphasis in the field of Global Software Engineering (GSE), particularly focusing on the software design phase during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <h3>Key contribution</h3> <ol> <li>Systematic analysis of GSE research <ul> <li>Phase 1 - Mapped GSE research over the two decades leading to the pandemic (2000&ndash;2020)</li> <li>Phase 2 - Used the forward snowballing approach to examine literature on the software design phase published between 2020 and 2022.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Analyzed trends in GSE research through 592 research studies across both phases.</li> </ol> <h3>Dataset content</h3> <p>The dataset consis of following files:</p> <ol> <li>Readme file - Overview and instructions for the dataset.</li> <li>Search string and snowballing - Contains the search strings used in the first phase and details of the forward snowballing approach used in the second phase.</li> <li>Data extraction template and Inclusion/exclusion criteria - Includes the template for organizing key features of papers relevant to the research questions and lists the inclusion and exclusion criteria applied.</li> <li>Screening process - Describes the three-level screening process applied in both phases (title, abstract, full text). A separate tab analyzes primary studies used in the second phase.</li> <li>RQs analysis - Provides detailed analysis of research questions (RQs) from the final set of 592 papers.</li> </ol>