A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; ...
Abstract--With the availability of powerful computational and communication systems, scientists now readily access large, complicated derived datasets and build on those results to...
Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke, Aaron M. Elliso...
Organizations are adopting multiple best practices models to improve overall performance. Their objective is to capture the cumulative added value of each model into one single env...
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...