The Agile Software Development paradigm has become increasingly popular in the last few years, since it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) is a complex software ...

Agile methods emerge as an alternative to improve quality and performance in software development processes. However, as agile methods are essentially focused on human aspects, their application in companies depends mostly on their adequacy to the ...

This paper proposes new stochastic models that describe the task processing by the Markovian software availability model with perfect debugging and study the method to evaluate the system performance for the multi-tasking software system having several ...

Business Process Management is called agile when it is able to react quickly and adequately to internal and external events. Agile Business Process Management requires putting the life cycle of business processes on a new paradigm. It is advocated in ...

In software maintenance, a system has to be regression tested after modifying it. The goal of regression testing is to ensure that modifications have not adversely affected the system. Regression test selection determines a subset of test cases, from the ...

With the enhancement of hardware and software engineering, the effectiveness and correctness of software is less and less doubted and customers are more aware about whether software services are available or not when needed. Software maintenance is one ...

Statistics on medical errors and their consequences has astonished, during the previous years, both healthcare professionals and ordinary people. Mass-media are becoming more and more sensitive to medical malpractices. This paper elaborates on the well-...

Social software has received much attention in the academia and industry due to many success stories. However, although social software is used widely for business support, its relationship with Business Process Management has not been analysed. The ...

The increasing demand for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions as well as the high rates of troubled ERP implementations and outright cancellations calls for developing effort estimation practices to systematically deal with uncertainties in ERP ...

During software maintenance tasks, developers often spend a valuable amount of effort investigating source code. This effort can be reduced if tools are available to help developers navigate the source code effectively. We studied to what extent ...

Software process improvement in small organisation is often problematic and communication and knowledge sharing is more informal. To improve software processes we need to understand how they communicate and share knowledge. In this article have studied ...

The Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science, prediction of software defects and defect patterns is and will continue to be a critically important software evolution research topic. This study presents a time series analysis ...

The significance of QoS-assurance is being increasingly recognized by both the research and wider communities. In the latter case, this recognition is driven by the increasing adoption by business of 24-7 software systems and the QoS decline that end-...

Architecture-based metrics can provide valuable information on whether or not one can localize the effects of modification (such as adjusting data flows or control flows) in software and can therefore be used to prevent the changes from adversely ...

A code clone is a code fragment that has other code fragments identical or similar to it in the source code. The presence of code clones is generally regarded as one factor that makes software maintenance more difficult. For example, if a code fragment ...

Testing firewalls have proven to be a useful approach for regression testing in both functional and object-oriented software. They involve only the modules that are closely related to the changed modules. They lead to substantially reduced regression ...

Software engineers new to a project are often stuck sorting through hundreds of classes in order to find those few classes that offer a significant insight into the inner workings of the software project. To help stimulate this process, we propose a ...