Abstract

Scientific literature over time highlighted the relevance of requirements engineering for software development process for desktop, web or mobile applications. Nevertheless, not much contemporary information with regard to current practices in small-sized software factories is available. This is specially true in the region of Sinaloa, México, for that reason this work presents an exploratory study which provides insight into industrial practices in Sinaloa. A combination of both qualitative and quantitative data is collected, using semi-structured interviews and a detailed questionnaire from sixteen software factories. A Pearson (r) correlation analysis was performed independently between the variables Company location (EU), Scope of coverage (AC), Number of workers (NT), Time to live in the market (TV), Projects completed (PY), Time dedicated to activities related to the project (TA), Outdated projects completed (PC) in order to determine the degree of relationship between each of the variables mentioned, with all. A correlation analysis and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed. The quantitative results offers opportunities for further interpretation and comparison.