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Unit testing of legacy code is often characterized by the goal to find a maximum number of defects with minimal effort. In context of restrictive time frames and limited resources, approaches for generating test cases promise increased defect detection effectiveness. This paper presents the results of an empirical study investigating the effectiveness of (a) manual unit testing conducted by 48 master...
This paper outlines an ongoing empirical study on the relationship between organizational values and the deployment of agile methods. Organizational values are interpreted as preferred organizational qualities and standards which guide organizational decisions and behavior. They have been shown to have significant impact on different aspect of organizational life, including organizational commitment,...
Modern systems are becoming increasingly complex, and Requirements Engineering (RE) processes should be able to cope with thousands or tens of thousands of requirements presented by a wide variety of stakeholders. These requirements need to be analysed in order to ascertain what the actual problem is and how it should be solved. This paper describes a case in a large company in a telecommunication...
Traceability of software artifacts, from requirements to design and through implementation and quality assurance, has long been promoted by the research and expert practitioner communities. However, evidence indicates that, with the exception of those operating in the safety critical domain, few software companies choose to implement traceability processes, often due to associated cost and complexity...
As software is increasingly developed as part of an overall, often multidisciplinary system, traditional engineering approaches often reach their limits when faced with increasing complexity, variability, requirements, or cost and productivity pressure. Generally, reuse and product-orientation are considered promising approaches to tackle such challenges, but to fully exploit their potential require...
High-quality software is an indispensable requirement today. Low-quality products can result in high overall costs (e.g., due to rework). Quality assurance can help to reduce the number of defects before a software product is delivered. However, quality assurance itself can be a major cost driver, especially testing activities. One solution for balancing these costs is to focus testing on defect-prone...
An increasing amount of time is being spent at organizational meetings. One common type of meeting in software projects is the daily team meeting, which is the most important forum for coordinating and planning daily work. To better understand how software teams make decisions, communicate, and coordinate their work, we must uncover the micro-level interaction processes among the team members at these...
One of the most significant problems faced by project managers is to effectively distribute the project resources and effort among the various project activities. Most importantly, project success depends on how well, or how balanced, the work effort is distributed among the project phases. This paper aims to obtain useful information regarding the correlation of the composition of effort attributed...
This research study explores current quality requirements (QR) management practices in Australian organisations focusing on the elicitation, handling processes, challenges faced, quantification methods used and interdependency management. This research was conducted through six mini case studies, examining organizations that varied in size, structure, industry and function. A mixed methodology was...
In the times of increased global competition, software companies are forced to search for more effective development practices and often team up with onshore and offshore partners to develop faster and better products. In this paper we empirically explore a highly distributed onshore development project with a complex coordination structure. Our findings demonstrate that onshore development projects...
In software engineering project management, one of the critical issues is the selection of appropriate software life cycle model (SLCM), which may affect the success of the project as all stages of software development process is established according to the model selected. The aim of this study is to propose a fuzzy multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach to SLCM selection, since fuzzy sets...
A motivated individual is one of the cornerstones of agile software development. Although motivation has been recognized and studied in the software development field, little research has examined motivation in agile teams. Our study aims to provide a better understanding of what motivates software developers in agile environments. We conducted a systematic review of motivators in the agile context,...
Software Product Line has proven to be an effective methodology for developing a diversity of software products at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality. However, the adoption and maintenance of traceability in the context of product lines is considered a difficult task, due to the large number and heterogeneity of assets developed during product line engineering. Furthermore, the...
Given its intrinsic complexity, it is not efficient to develop software defined radio (SDR) systems following traditional methodologies. A new methodology is necessary, which should allow the description of the applications at higher abstraction levels. This paper describes such a methodology. It includes domain specific modelling languages (DSML) for SDR applications / SDR architectures, and the...
Open Source Software (OSS) represents an extremely valuable resource that is reused systematically almost in every software project. The reuse of OSS components however is restricted to ready-made components and developers who want to reuse code that exists in OSS projects but is not offered as a black-box component often resort to copying existing code and adapting it in their projects. OPEN-SME...
Identical domain concepts reified in different metamodelling projects may be named, represented and connected differently. It turns out that a transformation defined for a particular metamodel cannot be directly used for another metamodel. To tackle this problem, we propose a process for automatically adapting legacy transformations. Such a transformation is adapted to the new metamodel that has a...
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