The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
Little research has been conducted to date on the specific topic of the tailoring of systems development methods. Two related research areas--contingency factors research and metho...
Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitation in ‘traditional’ face-to-face groups is challenged by the inc...
Daniela E. Damian, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Armin Eberl...
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
One of the challenging research problems in validating a software engineering methodology (SEM), and a part of its validation process, is to answer “How to fairly collect, presen...