Research Article
Mohamed D Almadhoun
Abstract
Considering good practices of software engineering in ICT sector associations can improve this sector, accelerate development, increase product qualities and enlarge economic investment in country. This research applied a survey to discover weakness and strengths of ICT sector in Palestine, survey consists of different six categories of questions: general information, production type, quality control and standardization, relationships between association and customers, production quality, and production size, every category discusses a dilemma. Results of survey are listed for each category with clarifying and comparing between current situation and the good practices that should be followed. Discussion and recommendations added SWOT analysis for results and changes that should be followed. Data mining techniques were used to try looking at the future and put rules deduced from data, clustering for grouping instances and studying each group properties, and rule induction to deduce the strongest relations between software engineering practices.