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.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 89-123 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Journal | e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Research agenda
- Software startup
- Software-intensive systems
Authors (Note for portal: view the doc link for the full list of authors)
- Authors
- Unterkalmsteiner, Michael and Abrahamsson, Pekka and Wang, XiaoFeng and Nguyen-Duc, Anh and Shah, Syed and Bajwa, Sohaib Shahid and Baltes, Guido H and Conboy, Kieran and Cullina, Eoin and Dennehy, Denis and others
- Michael Unterkalmsteiner and Pekka Abrahamsson and Xiaofeng Wang and Anh Nguyen-Duc and Syed Shah and Sohaib Shahid Bajwa and Guido H. Baltes and Kieran Conboy and Eoin Cullina and Denis Dennehy and Henry Edison and Carlos Fernandez-Sanchez and Juan Garbajosa and Tony Gorschek and Eriks Klotins and Laura Hokkanen and Fabio Kon and Ilaria Lunesu and Michele Marchesi and Lorraine Morgan and Markku Oivo and Christoph Selig and Pertti Seppänen and Roger Sweetman and Pasi Tyrväinen and Christina Ungerer and Agustin Yagüe
- Unterkalmsteiner, M,Abrahamsson, P,Wang, XF,Anh, ND,Shah, S,Bajwa, SS,Baltes, GH,Conboy, K,Cullina, E,Dennehy, D,Edison, H,Fernandez-Sanchez, C,Garbajosa, J,Gorschek, T,Klotins, E,Hokkanen, L,Kon, F,Lunesu, I,Marchesi, M,Morgan, L,Oivo, M,Selig, C,Seppanen, P,Sweetman, R,Tyrvainen, P,Ungerer, C,Yague, A
- Unterkalmsteiner, M; Abrahamsson, P; Wang, XF; Anh, ND; Shah, S; Bajwa, SS; Baltes, GH; Conboy, K; Cullina, E; Dennehy, D; Edison, H; Fernandez-Sanchez, C; Garbajosa, J; Gorschek, T; Klotins, E; Hokkanen, L; Kon, F; Lunesu, I; Marchesi, M; Morgan, L; Oivo; M,Selig, C; Seppanen, P; Sweetman, R; Tyrvainen, P; Ungerer, C; Yague, A
