Human behaviour has significant impact on the performance of any project. Software projects are no exception. This paper presents a research plan to develop combined agent-based and system dynamics models to simulate software development process ...

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is a software development paradigm that focusing on systematic software assets reuse. SPLE treats software products in the same application domains as a product family and developing various of assets could be ...

Software architecture design is key to building systems that meet quality demands. Choosing the appropriate way to model the architecture ensures it is rightly understood by everyone involved. UML diagrams are commonly used in software engineering but ...

Risk identification is the first critical task of risk management for planning measures to deal with risks. While, software projects have a high risk of schedule overruns, current practices in risk management mostly rely on high level guidance and the ...

The Java Memory Model (JMM) offers significant guarantees of sequentially consistent behaviour where concurrent access to shared data is regulated by synchronisation. Using the Java synchronized construct incurs high overheads. Using other light-weight ...

Service-Oriented Revision Control (SORC) is a novel distributed Software Configuration Management (SCM) model specifically designed for effectively supporting collaborative programming of Web applications, where each developer's code is exposed to their ...

Adobe Flash is a popular platform frequently used for creation of advertisements, videos and interactive contents on web pages. However its utility is lost with the decreasing support of Flash players on some platforms, where open standards like HTML5 ...

Software development plays a major role in the production of software products. This process must be carefully designed in order to successfully deliver the end product, and at the same time fulfill the values desired. Value-Based Software Engineering (...

Since the appearance of the agile development approach, more emphasis was put on human factors in software development. "The agile approach reflects the notion that development environments should support communication and information sharing". This ...