In modern software development, software localization is a key process to support distribution of software products to the global market. During software localization, developers typically convert all user-visible strings, resource files, and other culture-related elements to the local versions that are well accepted by local users. Despite the popularity of software localization, there have be...

Open source software (OSS) is becoming increasingly popular in several aspects of software engineering activities, ranging from using OSS for development or execution environments to incorporating OSS directly into developed products. OSS and its development projects differ from proprietary software and closed source projects in several aspects. Therefore, these aspects should be known and anal...

The paper presents a systematic approach to software risk identification based on risk patterns. The approach assumes explicit modelling of the relevant business process that provides for controlling the scope and ensures the completeness of the analyses. We demonstrate how this approach can be applied using RUP as the reference model of software processes. Then we report on the validation expe...

In this paper, a combination of qualitative research methods is utilized to uncover new environmental factors affecting the management of software projects. Two new findings emerged from this study. First, workspace allocation directly affects resources productivity; and consequently, final deliverables of software projects. This effect could be positive, negative, and/or neutral nature. The se...

Large software engineering projects require computer support for collaborative development work. An efficient management of the flow of work items between different people or different groups of people is an important prerequisite for a successful software engineering project. Workflow management in a software engineering project must include planning and modelling of development activities, re...

A Project Scheduling Problem consists in deciding “who does what” during the software project lifetime. This is a capital application in the practice of software engineering, since the total budget and human resources involved must be managed optimally to end in a successful project. In short, the main interest of a company is to reduce the time and the cost of the project, and these two goals ...

Original scientific paper The existing software fault prediction models require metrics and fault data belonging to previous software versions or similar software projects. However, there are cases when previous fault data are not present, such as a software company’s transition to a new project domain. In this kind of situations, supervised learning methods using fault labels cannot be applied...

In this short paper we report on experiences gained from bachelor and master theses, and from a series of software projects conducted in cooperation with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Saarland University. Those bachelor/master theses and software projects were dealing with the application of Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies to the representation and...

Executive Summary This technical report summarizes the state of the practice for measurement of object-oriented (OO) software development projects. This report extends work previously performed by the Software Productivity Consortium and National Research Council of Canada. It is one of a set of reports on measurement topics sponsored by the Department of Defense. These reports are intended to ...

Successful software development projects depend, among other things, on their project manager’s leadership capabilities. This paper analyzes how specific leadership styles of IT project managers contributed to the success of a large IT project realized by an IT service provider in India. We conducted an interpretive case study following the principles of the Grounded Theory Methodology to explo...