Welcome To SEGAL

SEGAL is a research facility in the Computer Science Department of University of Victoria, BC. We carry out research to improve the collaboration of geographically distributed software development teams. Global software development is increasingly becoming common practice in the software industry. The ability to develop software at remote sites in projects allows organizations to ignore the geographic distance and benefit from access to a qualified resource pool and reduced development costs. The rapid globalization of the software industry creates software engineering challenges due to the impact of temporal, geographical, and cultural differences. We study methodologies, techniques, and technologies to address these issues.