Systems development needs to reconcile views from many roles, such as domain experts and engineers. A particular challenge is the multitude of models for requirements and quality, which can get time consuming and error prone to trace, change, and ...

The emergence of new information system (IS) service technologies yields opportunities and challenges in identifying and monitoring quality of services that providers are delivering. Unfortunately, very few approaches have applied accurate and unbiased ...

Managing requirements on quality aspects is an important issue in the development of software systems. Difficulties arise from expressing them appropriately what in turn results from the difficulty of the concept of quality itself. Building and using ...

Software process modeling has become an essential technique for managing, investigating and improving software development processes. In this area, hybrid process simulation modeling attracts an increasing research attention. This paper presents a new ...

With multiple developers engaged in collaboratively writing software code, responsibility for a specific piece of code is difficult to assign. Nonetheless, responsibility is a major factor in achieving quality and preventing code from being developed ...

Implementing software process improvement (SPI) program successfully in a software organization is possibly the most challenging issue that the industry faces today. It is even more challenging to implement an SPI program in software organizations of ...

There are a number of authors who have documented problems with our software development processes. Unrealistic schedules and budgets, with continuing steams of requirements changes lead to projects with a high risk of failure. There is too often only a ...