A Hierarchical Framework for Organizing a Software Development Process

A Hierarchical Framework for Organizing a Software Development Process

Every year, companies that produce commercial tax preparation software struggle with thousands of state and federal changes to tax laws and forms. Three competitors dominate the market with its short selling season, and release delays slash profits. Tax authorities issue updates August-December, and all changes must be processed and incorporated before year end. Systematic resource allocation a...

A Bisimulation-based Hierarchical Framework for Software Development Models

Software development models have been ripen since the emergence of software engineering, like waterfall model, V-model, spiral model, etc. To ensure the successful implementation of those models, various metrics for software products and development process have been developed along, like CMMI, software metrics, and process re-engineering, etc. The quality of software products and processes can...

A Decision Framework for Selecting a Suitable Software Development Process

A Unified Process Support Framework for Global Software Development

There is an increasing trend in global software development, where different parts of a software product are being developed in different organisations. The process aspect of such a distributed development environment is particularly important in order to ensure communication and coordination between the teams in different organisations. However different organisations may use different notatio...

Generalized Framework for Agile Software Development Process

Agile Software Development Process (ASDP) has been adopted by many software industries. There exist various methods based on ASDP. Agile methods (AMs) are used mostly in small and low critical projects due to lack of generalized practices. Limited applicability of AMs in distributed environment, life critical system, contract projects and large complex application generated the strong need of g...