Software development processes provide means to develop software in a structured and disciplined way. Although these processes provide support for how to develop software, there is still a challenge to successfully apply them in practice. Thus, there is a need to support management of software development processes so that their use generate as good results as possible. The thesis presents supp...

The experience of building a customised process-centered software development environment is described. This environment supports a team-oriented software process and performs automatic collecting of process data such as the number of defects per module and development time per phase per module. The underlying model for collecting the data is the Personal Software Process. The environment has b...

Software process simulation modeling has become an increasingly active research area for managing and improving software development processes since its introduction in the last two decades. Hybrid process simulation models have attracted interest as a possibility to avoid the limitations of applying single modeling method, and more realistically capture complex real-world software processes. T...

One of the key issues in development of Multi-agent System(MAS) is to follow the more suitable development process for a particular problem. This means that development process models must be defined. Definition leads to better process understanding, facilitates process measurement and improvement, and constitutes the basis for automating the process itself. The main goal of this paper is the d...

We now need to develop a new class of software applications; eApplications, to support business processes for eBusiness organisations. The attempts to develop these applications using traditional software development methodologies have met with limited success. In order to better understand the requirements for these applications we studied how a business can transform into an eBusinesses. We c...

Test-driven development (TDD) is an advanced technique of using automated unit tests to drive the design of software and force decoupling of dependencies. TDD does not replace traditional testing, instead it defines a proven way to ensure effective unit testing. The overall initiative results in continuous improvements and provides a mechanism for propagating the lessons learned between project...

In this paper we describe how existing software developing processes, such as Rational Unified Process, can be adapted in order to allow disciplined and more efficient development of user interfaces. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate that standard modeling environments, based on the UML, can be adapted and efficiently used for user interfaces development. We have integrated the...