The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an incr...
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...
It is widely recognized that in order to make performance validation an integrated activity along the software lifecycle it is crucial to be supported from automated approaches. E...
Vittorio Cortellessa, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola In...
The design of the variability of a software product line is crucial to its success and evolution. Meaningful variable features need to be elicited, analyzed, documented and validat...
Reinhard Stoiber, Samuel Fricker, Michael Jehle, M...
The importance of a clear conceptual and terminological framework for software process engineering and the shortcomings of previous clari cation attempts are discussed. A rst issu...