TY - JOUR AU - Aguilar-Calderón, Jose Alfonso AU - Tripp-Barba, Carolina AU - Zaldívar-Colado, Aníbal AU - Espinosa, Roberto AU - Zurita-Cruz, Carlos Eduardo PY - 2019/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Pearson Correlation Analysis of the Software Engineering Practice in Micro and Small-Sized Software Industry of Sinaloa, Mexico JF - IEEE Latin America Transactions JA - IEEE LAT AM T VL - 17 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/243 SP - 210-218 AB - <p>Is well-known that software development process for desktop, web or mobile applications in industry needs the adoption of best practices of Software Engineering. Nevertheless, not much contemporary information with regard to current practices in micro and small-sized software industry exists especially in Sinaloa, Mexico. This work presents an exploratory study which provides insight into industrial practices in the software industry of 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Time to live in the market (TV), Projects completed (PY), Time dedicated to activities related to the project (TA), Outdated projects completed (PC) in order to determine the degree of relationship between each of the variables mentioned, with all.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 will serve to obtain opportunities for further interpretation and comparison.&nbsp;</p> ER -