In the US continued and increased issuance of software and business method patents is criticized by many. Some argue that software and business method patents do not stimulate inn...
Abstract—Today, software product line engineering concentrates on tailoring the functionality of programs. However, we and others observed an increasing interest in non-functiona...
Norbert Siegmund, Martin Kuhlemann, Mario Pukall, ...
An important component of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) research involves the measurement, observation, analysis and understanding of software engineering in practice. Resul...
This work presents a method for the definition of process capability profiles lined up with the specific business model of small software companies. The developed method is made u...
Frequent changes to groups of software entities from different parts of the system may indicate structural issues in the system's decomposition. Analyzing such groups is neede...