In the recent years, improvements in robotic hardware have not been matched by advancements in robotic software and the gap between those two areas has been widening. To cope with the increasing complexity of novel robotic embedded systems an integrated and continuous software development process is required supporting different development activities and stages being integrated into an overall...

In this poster we present InterMod, an approach that combines Agile Methods, Model-Driven Developments and User-Centered Design, which are widely accepted in the development of interactive software. The planning and project organizing are based on User Objectives (user desires). The project is organised as a series of iterations and the work is distributed in different workgroups according to s...

Being a commonly used technique to enrich the software structure, refactoring – as well as any software changes performed every day – still lacks a good formal definition. Especially in the distributed environment there is a great need for a better mechanism allowing to avoid conflicts and properly merge the changes introduced by different developers. In this paper we continue our project of a ...

Evidence shows that integrated development environments (IDEs) are too often functionality-oriented, complex and difficult to use, learn, and master. This article describes challenges in the design of usable IDEs and in the evaluation of the usability of such tools. It presents the results of three different empirical studies of IDE usability. Different methods have been sequentially applied ac...

Large organizations have diverse product offerings to meet various business needs. To increase revenue, its common these days to offer software products as integrated product suite(s) rather than individual products. Creating and maintaining high quality software products within the integrated product suite requires rigorous product engineering methods. The sheer size of products and dependenci...

Software design consists of determining a high-level organization of a system that meets a given problem specification. We present a prototype system called KASE (Knowledge Assisted Software Engineering) that helps system analysts and designers design and redesign software systems. The KASE environment provides knowledge representation and reasoning tools to integrate knowledge about general so...

Introduction We believe that existing techniques only address parts of the problem of assessing the safety of the software components of safety-critical systems. It is our belief that the main shortcomings of these existing techniques lie in their poor integration with each other and with the rest of the development process. We have identified three main areas where improved integration is nece...

SPE is a software development environment which supports multiple textual and graphical views of a program. Views are kept consistent with one another using a mechanism of update records. SPE is useful throughout all phases of the software development life-cycle. It provides support for conceptual level object-oriented analysis and design using diagrams, visual and textual programming, hypertex...

A prototype system, the Integrated Building Design Environment (IBDE), has been implemented to act as a testbed for a number of issues that arise from the need to integrate computer aids for the design and construction of buildings. The seven programs that comprise IBDE are briefly described. Issues such as knowledge representation, data organization, intercommunication, implementation and cont...