Defining process standards by integrating, harmonizing, and standardizing heterogeneous and often implicit processes is an important task, especially for large development organiza...
Ove Armbrust, Masafumi Katahira, Yuko Miyamoto, J&...
The research examines the version histories of nine open source software systems to uncover trends and characteristics of how developers commit source code to version control syst...
Abdulkareem Alali, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Ma...
COTS components, like software libraries, can be used to reduce the development effort. Unfortunately, many COTS components have been developed without a focus on robustness and s...
This paper describes an initiative to improve software acquisition process in Brazil. This initiative was conducted in the context of the MPS.BR Program, a nationwide effort to de...
Kival Chaves Weber, Eratostenes Edson Ramalho de A...
Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...