Software development is rarely an individual effort and generally involves teams of developers collaborating together in order to generate reliable code. Such collaborations require proper communication and regular coordination among the team members. In addition, coordination is required to sort out problems due to technical dependencies that exist when components of one part of the architectu...

Technical debt is known as delaying certain software maintenance tasks during software development life cycle to meet development goals in a short run. Such compromise increases maintenance cost in a way like growing financial interest in later development of software life cycle. Despite all the negative impact induced by technical debt, enterprise architects have to leverage between incurring ...

This study is going to provide directions to open source practitioners to better organize their projects to achieve greater performance. In this research, we try to understand socio-technical interactions in a system development context by examining the joint effect of developer team structure and open source software architecture on OSS development performance. We hypothesize that developer te...

Rapid fielding or expedited systems development plays a major role in developing systems to provide a quick response to the organization. Instead of polishing and perfecting all requirements with possible delivery delays, these urgent needs programs must adapt themselves to have a life cycle that is driven by a “Faster, Faster and Faster” concept. Surprisingly, schedule has become more importan...

Inspection is widely believed to be the most cost-effective method for detecting defects in documents produced during the software development lifecycle. However, it is by its very nature a labour intensive process. This has led to work on computer support for the process which should increase the efficiency and effectiveness beyond what is currently possible with a solely manual process. In th...

The Software Craftsmanship manifesto has defined values and principles that software development teams should follow to deliver quality software that fulfills functional and non-functional requirements without dealing with high amounts of technical debt. Software craftsmanship approach to software development prioritizes technical practices in order to provide a clean code base. This work analy...

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are service systems that connect a product’s physical and computational elements through telecommunication networks. Typically, the processes in CPSs are executed on this physical and computational infrastructure. As the developing of new CPS is costly, testing and validating a CPS’s design at an early stage of development is desirable in order to avoid potential b...

Software development involves a variety of interrelated software documents produced in the diierent phases of the software development process. A CASE environment should maintain these documents and their relationships, and provide support for their consistency. Hyper-text provides a general way to store and present interrelated information. It is natural to expect that hypertext can play a sig...

Staff attrition is a problem often faced by software development organizations. How can a manager plan for the risk of losses due to attrition? Can policies for this purpose be formulated to address his/her specific organization and project? Proposed was to use a software development process simulator tuned to the specific organization, for running "what-if" scenarios for assessing the effects ...

Optimizing the quality of software is a function of the degree of reviews made during the early life of a software development process. Reviews detect errors and potential errors early in the software development process. The errors detected during the early life cycle of software are least expensive to correct. Efficient involvement in software inspections and technical reviews, help developer...