Abstract

Context: During project management, software project scheduling is performed to generate a schedule for system. It is one of the most important steps taken before project development.
Objective: This study aims to identify and analyze common trends, gaps and future studies in line with formulated research questions.
Method: According to the guidelines proposed in evidence-based software engineering literature, a state of art literature review has been conducted.
Result: We selected a total of 41 primary studies from the search process. This selection comprises of 14 journal articles, 25 conference papers, 1 book chapter, and 1 article.
Conclusion: Project scheduling has been discussed by researchers significantly. There are number of limitations in existing scheduling proposed techniques which include: lack of scalability, inclusion of less dynamic events, inefficiency in the presence of more dynamics, a low number of project scenarios handling. The existing techniques have been applied in complex and real settings in a limited means too.

Keywords: Dynamic software project scheduling; Search-based optimization; Mathematical model