Much of current software engineering practice and research is done in a value-neutral setting, in which every requirement, use case, object, test case, and defect is equally important. However most studies of the critical success factors distinguishing successful from failed software projects find that the primary critical success factors lie in the value domain. The value-based software engine...

Nowadays, Value engineering (V.E.) is considered as a tool of construction management that can help companies to improve their procedures, services and final products regarding the client’s needs, as an end user, with respect to time, cos t and quality. The V.E. process has evolved from previous methods based on the concept of value and functional approach. These methods were pioneered by Lawre...

Software permeates every aspect of our life. As the increasing mission-criticality of software in a system, software quality is becoming more important for systems in many sectors of society, including systems associated with national infrastructure, defense, health care, as well as commercial, e-business and embedded systems. Important dimensions of quality include reliability, availability, p...

Software engineering research and practice thus far are primarily conducted in a value-neutral setting where each artifact in software development such as requirement, use case, test case, and defect, is treated as equally important during a software system development process. There are a number of shortcomings of such value-neutral software engineering. Value-based software engineering is to ...

The INCOSE definition of “systems engineering” is “an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems.” The Value-Based Theory of Systems Engineering presents necessary and sufficient conditions for realizing a successful system and elaborates them into an executable process. The theory and process are illustrated on a supply-chain system example, and evalua...