Delivering increasingly complex software-reliant systems demands better ways to manage the long-term effects of shortterm expedients. The technical debt metaphor is gaining signif...
Nanette Brown, Yuanfang Cai, Yuepu Guo, Rick Kazma...
IT organizations are facing significant business and technical challenges today. On the business realm, companies are increasingly outsourcing their IT operations to specialized I...
Santhosh Kumaran, Tian Chao, Kamal Bhattacharya, P...
-- Software is increasing in size and complexity. As a direct implication, organizations nd it more difficult to achieve the desired product quality. Process improvement models are...
Abstract: Model based development, like proposed by the OMG’s Model Driven Arre (MDA), aims to raise the level of abstraction from working on the code to working with models. For...
The evaluation of software processes is nowadays a very important issue due to the growing interest of software companies in the improvement of the productivity and quality of del...