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The link between maintenance and product quality, as well as the high cost of software maintenance, highlights the importance of efficient maintenance processes. Sustaining maintenance work efficiency in a global software development setting that involves a transfer is a challenging endeavor. Studies report on the negative effect of transfers on efficiency. However, empirical evidence on the magnitude...
Software is a generic term for organized collections of computer data and instructions; it is amalgamation of machine understandable instructions that preside over the processor of computer to perform itemized operations. The importance of software accompanies the effect of its malleability towards software development life cycle. Antecedent models such as Prototyping model, Incremental model, waterfall...
This study utilizes artificial neural network (ANN) to explore the nonlinear influences of number of inventors, average age of patents, and age of patenting activities on patent citations and corporate performance in the US pharmaceutical industry. The results show that number of inventors, average age of patents, and age of patenting activities of the US pharmaceutical companies have the nonlinearly...
Extending beyond existing discussion on product and process innovation, this paper proposes a new role of design in exploring a new dimension of corporate innovation. In spite of decades of growing awareness of innovation, the engineering and management communities continue to either show scant interest in design, or fail to understand how design can positively enhance innovation. This paper aims...
The early stage of open innovation diffusion also hinders the use of traditional research methods in business economics. A suitable research method though relatively new in business management research is agent-based modeled simulations (ABMS). The aim of the paper is therefore also to develop an open innovation ABMS to explore the relative effects of innovation openness and initial capability endowment...
Numerous studies have already demonstrated the benefits and social relevance of electric vehicles. But why EVs are not yet visible in our streets? To provide an answer to this question the Flemish government has set up five living labs for the deployment of electric vehicles in 2011. Several studies presented in literature are focused on the consumer and his/her perception, but rarely take into account...
In this article I present to you how could a simulation program be integrated in a long distance course. This is not affecting the practical session, in the contrary enhancing and complementing it. The Obudai University's strength lies in the practical approach to teaching and its collaborations with independent companies. For 2012–2013 second half term we arranged an agreement with the Design Soft...
Testing aims at identifying whether the software product attends its specification and the customer needs. It is a collaborative task since it requires coordination and communication of activities with those responsible for defining the project scope and for developing the source-code in order to clarify requirements, to stay up-to-date about changes, and to coordinate working schedule. It is a challenging...
Rally Software transitioned from shipping code every eight-weeks, with time-boxed Scrum sprints, to a model of continuous delivery with Kanban. The team encountered complex challenges with their build systems, automated test suites, customer enablement, and internal communication. But there was light at the end of the tunnel - greater control and flexibility over feature releases, incremental delivery...
Agile development have a distinct culture that at first glance seems to conflict with Interaction Design. Therefore, integrating these two areas becomes a challenging task. There is little guidance about integrating them. Very limited empirical evidence exists on Agile development and Interaction Design being combined in practice. In order to better understand how these approaches are combined in...
This is my personal journey of discovering how to provide value as a business analyst on an agile team. I will share some things that smoothed my path and some obstacles that slowed me down. And for the many BAs struggling with how they fit into this new world, I will also redefine the role of a business analyst as more than a requirements dictator. In closing, I will illustrate how BAs, as well as...
With the rapid development of IC technology, the application of FPGA becomes more and more widely, more than 90% embedded system design engineers of the world are using the FPGA for a wide variety of designs. The rapid development of FPGA brings new opportunities and challenges for test manufacturers, a variety of innovative testing technologies and solutions for FPGA have been developed. This paper...
Chinese government at different levels has elevated the competition for global talents to a strategic level. Against such a background, this paper presents a number of interesting findings on the basis of a study of three start-ups founded by Chinese returnees under the Recruitment Program of Global Experts plan: 1) The Chinese government has given preferences to returnees who start up businesses...
Living Labs can be seen as a means to structure user involvement in innovation processes. However, in this rather young research domain, there is no consensus yet regarding supporting theories and frameworks. This has resulted in a wide variety of projects and approaches being called ‘Living Labs’, which leaves a clear conceptualization and definition a task in progress. Within this research paper...
This paper presents a Serious Game (SG) about SBCE (Set-Based Concurrent Engineering) which is one element of Lean practice in Product Development (PD). The game is structured in two stages that simulate the traditional approach to product concept development called PBCE (Pont Based Concurrent Engineering) and SBCE processes. Although SBCE is becoming popular in academia, its understanding and level...
GitHub projects attract contributions from a community of users with varying coding and quality assurance skills. Developers on GitHub feel a need for automated tests and rely on test suites for regression testing and continuous integration. However, project owners report to often struggle with implementing an exhaustive test suite. Convincing contributors to provide automated test cases remains a...
System- and acceptance-testing are primarily performed with manual practices in current software industry. However, these practices have several issues, e.g. they are tedious, error prone and time consuming with costs up towards 40 percent of the total development cost. Automated test techniques have been proposed as a solution to mitigate these issues, but they generally approach testing from a lower...
Visual GUI testing (VGT) is an emerging technique that provides software companies with the capability to automate previously time-consuming, tedious, and fault prone manual system and acceptance tests. Previous work on VGT has shown that the technique is industrially applicable, but has not addressed the real-world applicability of the technique when used by practitioners on industrial grade systems...
Short release duration -- the time from starting development until it delivers measurable value (i.e., paying customers adopt an upgrade) -- is an implied goal of agile methods. Release duration incorporates the expensive parts of the value chain: build, test, deploy and sell (but not exploratory design, for example). Release duration correlates with technical debt. Attempting to reduce release duration...
The objective of this qualitative case study was to observe and describe how software quality is constructed in software development organizations. Eleven software programmers, testers, quality control personnel, requirement managers and research and development personnel were interviewed and common practices of quality construction analyzed. The findings indicated that quality construction practices...
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