The authors introduce the exploration of object-oriented basic concepts as a new approach to object-oriented modelling (OOM). While other subjects have a long tradition in learning by discovery with suitable learning aids (e.g. experimenting installations of the scientific subjects), Informatics at first has to define and to develop such learning aids. Therefore software development environment...

P. L. RAMSAY,1,6* Z. LUO,6* S. M. MAGDALENO,5 S. K. WHITBOURNE,1 X. CAO,1 M. S. PARK,4 S. E. WELTY,3 L.-Y. YU-LEE,2 AND F. J. DEMAYO1,6 Departments of 1Pediatrics, 2Medicine, and 6Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; 3Children’s Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43205; 4Department of Pediatrics, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea; and 5Department of Deve...

Software process improvement (SPI) is around for decades: frameworks are proposed, success factors are studied, and experiences have been reported. However, the sheer mass of concepts, approaches, and standards published over the years overwhelms practitioners as well as researchers. What is out there? Are there new emerging approaches? What are open issues? Still, we struggle to answer the que...

Several have reported observations that sometimes ignorance of the domain in a software development project is useful for promoting the elicitation of tacit assumptions and out-of-the-box ideas. This paper reports work putting the observation to an empirical test. A survey was conducted among software development managers of varying experience to determine what software development activities t...