Declarative models play an important role in most software design activities, by allowing designs to be constructed that selectively abstract over complex implementation details. ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Tony Griffiths, Norman W....
The adoption of distributed version control (DVC), such as Git and Mercurial, in open-source software (OSS) projects has been explosive. Why is this and how are projects using DVC?...
Earl T. Barr, Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Abra...
Software product lines (PLs) are large, complex systems, demanding high maintainability and enhanced flexibility. Nonetheless, in the state of the art PL methods, features are sca...
Software product lines (PLs) present a solid approach in large scale reuse. Due to the PLs’ inherit complexity, many PL methods use the notion of ”features” to support requir...
In this paper we discuss why and how measures related to human aspects should be incorporated into software development processes. This perspective is based on the vast evidence t...