MOTIVATION SCHEME FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

Basic Science for Software Developers

In many cases technological properties are expressed in terms of numerical parameters and the parameter values appear in product descriptions. This makes these limitations concrete and meaningful to pragmatic developers. It is the responsibility of engineering educators to make sure that our students understand the technological properties, know how to express them, know how to determine them f...

Optimisation Modelling for Software Developers

Software developers are an ideal channel for the distribution of Constraint Programming (CP) technology. Unfortunately, including even basic optimisation functionality in an application currently requires the use of an entirely separate paradigm with which most software developers are not familiar. We suggest an alternative interface to CP designed to overcome this barrier, and describe a proto...

Teaching Future Software Developers

Teaching software developer skills should be a fundamental part of software engineering curriculum. The current industry relies on evolutionary and agile processes that add one feature or property at a time. The main task of these processes is software change. Results of the recent research allow this topic to be taught on both undergraduate and graduate level. Phased model of software change (...

Guest editors introduction: Context for software developers

Monetary Rewards for Open Source Software Developers

Open source software (OSS) has changed the landscape and economics of software industry. Large software firms are changing their business models to incorporate OSS for long term success. As a result of greater organizational involvement in OSS, there is an increased prevalence of reward options for OSS developers. However, introducing compensation/rewards to these ideologically motivated commun...