The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and
adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that …

Abstract CONTEXT: Intelligent Software Engineering (ISE) refers to the application of
intelligent techniques to software engineering. We define an “intelligent technique” as a …

Even though the use of agile methods in software development is increasing, the problem of
effort estimation remains quite a challenge, mostly due to the lack of many standard metrics …

There are several software process models and methodologies such as waterfall, spiral and
agile. Even so, the rate of successful software development projects is low. Since software is …

Agile software development methodologies have become the most popular software
development methods in the last few years. These methodologies facilitate rapid …

Requirements analysis is the software engineering stage that is closest to the users' world. It
also involves tasks that are knowledge intensive. Thus, the use of Bayesian networks (BNs) …

In recent years, more software engineering researchers have focussed on methods,
techniques, tools, and processes to support software project management (SPM) addressing …

Scrum is a simple process to understand, but hard to adopt. Therefore, there is a need for
resources to assist on its adoption. In this paper, we present the process followed to build a …

Agile development methods have been proposed as a natural fit for mobile app
development contexts. Despite many studies addressing the adoption of agile methods for …

There is a high rate of software development projects that fails. Whenever problems can be
detected ahead of time, software development projects may have better chances of success …