Change impact analysis aims at identifying software artifacts being affected by a change. In the past, this problem has been addressed by approaches relying on static, dynamic, a...
Michele Ceccarelli, Luigi Cerulo, Gerardo Canfora,...
We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...
Performance prediction methods for component-based software systems aim at supporting design decisions of software architects during early development stages. With the increased a...
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...