EVALUATING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES IN PALESTINE

Software Engineering, the art and science of building improved software, is a core requirement of the majority computer science curriculum. Our ongoing research program focuses on three aspects of the global development of software in Palestine: (1) collection of quantitative data regarding current practice and performance in a variety of organizations; (2) determination of the adoption of competing models of software development across the organizations, and (3) analysis of the impact of different development practices on performance. This paper show the results of a survey of software development projects principally centered in using software engineering principles. The aim of this research is to measure the effectiveness of using software engineering practices on the productivity and quality of the software. The study showed the variation of using these practices from doing project management, requirements gathering methods, documentations, coding standard and testing. And try to give some directions to enhance the quality and productivity of the software in Palestine. The conclusion of the survey was the majority of IT companies and organizations in Palestine did not use most of common software engineering practices as required, the usage of software standards varied among them, as most of them did not document their projects, and the testing process was negative