By the term ‘professional end user developers’ we mean people such as research scientists who work in highly technical, knowledge-rich domains and who develop software in order to further their professional goals. In common with other end user developers, professional end user developers do not describe themselves as software engineers and have no formal training in software engineering. They d...

In this paper, we present our findings from a study into the nature of maintenance design meetings. Previous studies of software developers practicing design predominantly focused on the design of new software. In practice, however, developers often find themselves working on changes to already-existing software. Such changes can be complex to undertake, and frequently require impromptu, relati...

The significant role of needs analysis in enriching the design and content of ESP course books could be in no way ignored. The present study based on a three-year longitudinal needs analysis study of medical students, a medical ESP course book was developed and approved by experts. The feedback of the four-semester practice of the approved book revealed that practitioners showed great interest ...

While in the previous century computer manufacturers and software developers primary and single goal was to produce very fast computers and software systems, in this century this has changed: the widespread use of nonwired but powerful computer devices is making battery consumption/lifetime the bottleneck for both manufacturers and software developers. Unfortunately there is no software enginee...

Social media has changed how software developers collaborate, how they coordinate their work, and where they find information. Social media sites, such as the Question and Answer (Q&A) portal Stack Overflow, fill archives with millions of entries that contribute to what we know about software development, covering a wide range of topics. For today’s software developers, reusable code snippets, ...

The thousands of serial images used for medical pedagogy cannot be included in a printed book; they also cannot be efficiently handled by ordinary image viewer software. The purpose of this study was to provide browsing software to grasp serial medical images efficiently. The primary function of the newly programmed software was to select images using 3 types of interfaces: buttons or a horizon...

W henever I start a new software project, I look at the infrastructure the team has in place for doing things like setting up a development workspace, building, doing version management, and so on—the things that belong to the larger topic known as software configuration management (SCM). I worry about these elements because, in a sense, I’m lazy. I want to direct my energies into producing cod...