Description of the Impact and Success/Failure Factors of Software Products Released by UTN Graduates in the Systems and Software Engineering Careers

Across the years, graduates of the software and computer systems engineering careers at “Universidad Técnica del Norte”, have developed and released software products as result of their bachelor’s thesis projects. Each software product has specific characteristics, for example: the purpose they serve, the context they were built on, the tooling choose by their creators, among others. Due to limitations that include: the amount of software products, the time span between their releases and the current study’s date, the absence of a description of interest study variables; return data has not been collected, hence limiting the ability to know the impact caused by such software products, success/failure factors and the used development resources. This investigation aims to: define a methodology to fulfil the purpose of increasing the knowledge, define interest study variables, gather data and finally describe the impact, success/failure factors and development resources of the software products.