There has been an increased interest in exploring the ways of integrating agile software development and software product line approaches. Both approaches share several common goals, which provide the motivation for integrating them. However, there has been little empirical research for understanding how these approaches can be integrated in industrial settings. This paper presents the findings...

This paper investigates how software developers comprehend software failures in integrated systems, where the developers have no direct access to the source code of the third-party software being integrated. By analyzing corrective maintenance of integrated systems as a sensemaking process, we propose that systems comprehension can be understood as a result of the interaction between developers...

Through research and analysis on the software engineer process and the life cycle model based on product line, integrated software engineering environment model, core resource and the environment database platform, the technology of automation of modern manufacturing industry production line and so on, a novel multi-layers and multi-dimensional integrated software engineering environment model ...

Many previous studies invariably focused on the linear relationship between R&D investment and firm performance while overlooking there may be a quadratic effect, which may cause mixed and conflicting empirical findings, and leave some business cases difficult to understand. Thus, in this study, using a sample of 1923 IT companies from three industry sectors (i.e., hardware, computer chips and ...

Section 2, the main portion of the paper, discusses the two primary ways of understanding software costs. The "black-box" or influence-function approach provides useful experimental and observational insights on the relative software productivity and quality leverage of various management, technical, environmental, and personnel options. The "glass-box" or cost distribution approach helps ident...

Software pipelining is a powerful and efficient scheduling technique for exploiting instruction level parallelism in loops, it results in high performance but it increases the register requirements. Two methods are available to reduce the register requirements: increase the schedule length or insert spill code. Traditionally instruction scheduling and register allocation are applied in separate...

The paper describes a model-integrated approach for embedded software development that is based on domain-specific, multiple view models used in all phases of the development process. Models explicitly represent the embedded software and the environment it operates in, and capture the requirements and the design of the application, simultaneously. Models are descriptive, in the sense that they ...

Motivation: We introduce a development platform especially tailored to Bioinformatics research and software development. BIAS (Bioinformatics Integrated Application Software) provides the tools necessary for carrying out integrative Bioinformatics research requiring multiple datasets and analysis tools. It follows an object-relational strategy for providing persistent objects, allows third-part...