Many agile projects do not apply agile practices to their database development. Common wisdom dictates that the entire data model be carefully designed up front and protected from...
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
- Over the past years, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) have been broadly used for assessing organizational maturity and process...
Ana Sofia C. Marcal, Felipe Santana Furtado Soares...
Pointer analysis is traditionally performed once, early in the compilation process, upon an intermediate representation (IR) with source-code semantics. However, performing pointe...
Bolei Guo, Matthew J. Bridges, Spyridon Triantafyl...
Verification and validation activities take a substantial share of project budgets and need improvements. This is an accepted truth, but the current practices are seldom assessed ...