In recent literature it is commonly agreed that the first phase of the software development process is still an area of concern. Furthermore, while software technology has been ch...
Different classes of information system stakeholders depend on different values to be successful. Understanding stakeholders’ value dependencies is critical for developing softw...
Di Wu, Qi Li, Mei He, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Sup...
In this paper, we propose a formal analysis approach to estimate the expected (average) data cache access time of an application across all possible program inputs. Towards this g...
There is a class of projects that can only be accomplished via agile practices due to their complexity and risks. It is rare for such a project to be staffed with newbies but it h...
Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Softwa...