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Owing to the growing diffusion of the object-oriented paradigm and the need to keep the process of software development under control, industries are looking for metrics/indicators capable of evaluating system evolution to control quality, reusability, maintainability, etc. Some …
Although estimating the cost of a software project and the effort involved is very important, improving accuracy and establishing the software as a technology are both difficult. To solve these problems we have tried to use a software estimating tool. This tool has two characteri…
Traditionally, diagrams used in software systems modelling have been two dimensional (2D). This is probably because graphical notations, such as those used in object-oriented and structured systems modelling, draw upon the topological graph metaphor, which, at its basic form, rec…
Regression testing is an expensive maintenance process directed at validating modified software. Regression test selection techniques attempt to reduce the cost of regression testing by selecting tests from a program's existing test suite. Many regression test selection technique…
Workflow management is an area of increasing interest. Nonetheless there are only a few workflow systems which are actually used for supporting business processes in an industrial context. Most of these systems only deal with processes which create and manipulate unstructured pie…
The paper provides an overview of process research and the application of research results to practice and then describes process models using FUNSOFT nets and a workflow management system LEU. The example from which the experience is drawn is that of a problem tracking system an…
Many of the non conventional software development methodologies (such as object-oriented analysis methodology) and tools (such as visual programming environment) have been applied in real life projects. These projects have been started without sufficient previous training given t…
To manage the evolution of software systems effectively, software developers must understand software systems, identify and evaluate alternative modification strategies, implement appropriate modifications, and validate the correctness of the modifications. One analysis technique…
A corporate-wide metrics program faces enormous and poorly understood challenges as its implementation spreads out from the centralized planning body across many organizational boundaries into the sites where the data collection actually occurs. This paper presents a case study o…
Empirical evaluation of software systems in actual usage situations is critical in software engineering. Prototyping, beta testing, and usability testing are widely used to refine system requirements, detect anomalous or unexpected system and user behavior, and to evaluate softwa…
The required effort of a task can be estimated subjectively in interviews with experts in an organization in different ways. Interview techniques dealing with which type of questions to ask are evaluated and techniques for combining estimates from individuals into one estimate ar…
The experience factory concept enables systematic learning and continuous improvement in software development. As with most learning initiatives, it is hard to establish. In our experience, there is a great deal of uncertainty and skepticism about the mission and contents of an e…
Despite considerable evidence to show that inspections can help reduce costs and improve quality, inspections are not widely deployed in the software industry. One of the likely reasons for this is the "not applicable here (NAH)" syndrome-developers and managers believe that in t…
Using a solid Software Configuration Management (SCM) is mandatory to establish and maintain the integrity of the products of a software project throughout the project's software life cycle. Even with the help of sophisticated tools, handling the various dimensions of SCM can be …
Four distinct maintenance systems are studied and synthesised: the SEI quality framework and three industrial systems belonging to ABB, Ellemtel, and Ericsson. The goal is to validate the SEI framework, and to build a "state of the practice" conceptual model of the most fundament…
Component-based software development has proven effective for systems implementation in well-understood application domains, but is still insufficient for the creation of reusable and changeable software architectures. Design patterns address these shortcomings by capturing the e…
This report describes our experience acquired when we restructured OODesigner, a computer aided software engineering (CASE) tool for object modeling techniques (OMT). We had developed the version 1.x of OODesigner during 3 years since 1994. Although we had developed this version …
Version control and module management are very important in practical software development. In UNIX, RCS or SCCS is used in general as version control tools. They, however, have a couple of drawbacks. This paper proposed a solution for these issues by applying 3D visualization. T…
Any software development project requires commitments from its participants. These commitments can include money, resources, deadlines, and specified functionality for the end product. The authors have developed a framework and a set of guidelines to support the specification of …
Nokia Research Center (NRC) has been leading Esprit project ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems) for two years. One of the main purposes of ARES is to demonstrate the use of architectural modeling in controlling properties of industrial scale products and product f…