Working as a usability professional in the open source arena is a challenging task. The decentralized and engineering-driven approach of open source projects can be at odds with c...
Software systems development happens within a context which organizational processes are wellestablished. Hence, software needs to be built with flexible architectures based in so...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
An armada of emerging agile methods of software development (with eXtreme Programming and Scrum being the most broadly used) is both gaining popularity and generating lots of cont...
In this paper, we present the Deployment Support Network (DSN), a new methodology for developing and testing wireless sensor networks (WSN) in a realistic environment. With an addi...
Matthias Dyer, Jan Beutel, Thomas Kalt, Patrice Oe...
Many of today’s complex systems are multithreaded servers that effectively run forever and need to work under varying loads and environments. Understanding the behavior of such ...