A Survey of Value-Based Factors in Software Development

The software engineering domain has witnessed the emergence of the concept of Value-Based Software Engineering (VBSE), which intends to change conventional software engineering practices to become value-centric, and produce valuable products. However, there is an absence of a main list of value-based factors that focus on software development. This paper aims to investigate the value-based factors in the literature review which will be used to develop a value-based factors profile in software development. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method is adopted to systematically record the value-based factors that are utilised in the software development process. A total of 347 papers were extracted by using the defined key search. The extracted papers were further filtered according to the determined criteria. Twenty eight (28) final papers were then included for detailed assessment. The findings showed that 33 value-based factors are utilized in software development. These value-based factors can be classified into six main classifications, which are: success-critical stakeholder, resources, business strategy, organization, project and product. These findings can be used as a useful reference for software development teams to develop and produce value-centric software products, and can also be used to support other researchers in the software development process in the value-based software engineering domain.