SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Despite large volumes of data and many types of metrics, software projects continue to be difficult to predict and risky to conduct. In this paper we propose software analytics wh...
SOPR
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
Good project scheduling is an essential, but extremely hard task in software management practice. In a software project, the time needed to complete some development activity is d...
KI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Requirements engineering is a central part of software projects. It is assumed that two third of all errors in software projects are caused by forgotten requirements or mutual misu...
APSEC
2001
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2001
IEEE
A probabilistic scheduling model for software projects is presented. The model explicitly takes a scheduling strategy as input. When the scheduling strategy is fixed, the model ou...
ISPW
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1994
IEEE
All software projects are experiments in the sense of the scientific method because the outcomes are not known in advance, theories and hypotheses may be tested in the project emp...
APSEC
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
We present a discrete simulation model for software projects which explicitly takes a scheduling strategy as input. The model represents varying staff skill levels, component coup...
CSEE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
This paper describes our experience of teaching a Software Engineering course based on the use of group work to teaching and practise theoretical concepts. Our work has three main...
ICSM
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Function point analysis is a well known established method to estimate the size of software systems and software projects. However, because it is based on functional documentation...
MSR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
Source Control Repositories are used in most software projects to store revisions to source code files. These repositories operate at the file level and support multiple users. ...
SEW
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Established software development processes focus on delivering software within time and budget according to a set of requirements. However, practical experiences show that neither...