Asad Masood Qazi, University Institute of Information Technology – PMAS – Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Yasir Hafeez, University Institute of Information Technology – PMAS – Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Development lifecycle of a software project is a knowledge intensive activity in any organization. Organizations always tend towards more and more advanced technologies, products, tools, and techniques. From a need generation to need usage of a software product, a software development may include a bulk of knowledge in terms of problem solving, analytical knowledge, tool specific knowledge, domain knowledge and other types of knowledge, which should be transformed and manage properly. Also, a knowledge of software organization should not be dependent on a single resource or team, it should be diversified in different locations and domains. In this paper, a framework is proposed to tackle the knowledge related to software development from different sources and make it available to the development team from initial to end. A proposed framework is evaluated through an ongoing project of medium level software organization, and the results are collected, evaluated and analyzed properly through an industrial case study. The results show that a proposed framework provides ease of use to stakeholders of the project and improves the overall quality of development process.
Knowledge Management, Software Development Life Cycle, Knowledge Repository, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration
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APA:
Qazi, A. M., & Hafeez, Y., (2021). An Integration of Knowledge Management Techniques in Software Development Practices. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (IJAST), ISSN: 2005-4238(Print); 2207-6360 (Online), NADIA, 146, 43-52. doi: 10.33832/ijast.2021.146.05.
MLA:
Qazi, Asad Masood, et al. “An Integration of Knowledge Management Techniques in Software Development Practices.” International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, ISSN: 2005-4238(Print); 2207-6360 (Online), NADIA, vol. 146, 2021, pp. 43-52. IJAST, http://article.nadiapub.com/IJAST/Vol146/5.html.
IEEE:
[1] A. M. Qazi, and Y. Hafeez, "An Integration of Knowledge Management Techniques in Software Development Practices." International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology (IJAST), ISSN: 2005-4238(Print); 2207-6360 (Online), NADIA, vol. 146, pp. 43-52, January 2021.
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