Quality pressure is one of the factors affecting processes for software development in its
various stages. DevOps is one of the proposed solutions to such pressure. The primary …

Big Data Systems (BDSs) are an emerging class of scalable software technologies whereby
massive amounts of heterogeneous data are gathered from multiple sources, managed …

Context: Data-intensive systems, aka big data systems (BDS), are software systems that
handle a large volume of data in the presence of performance quality attributes, such as …

The large volumes of data that exist in the universities keep important information of each
student. Analyzing this data represents a challenge for data scientists due to the number of …

Software development using agile System Development Life Cycles (SDLC), such as Scrum
and XP, has gained important acceptance for small businesses. Agile approaches eliminate …

Abstract Context: Dependency Injection (DI) is a commonly applied mechanism to decouple
classes from their dependencies in order to provide higher modularization. However, bad DI …

In this work we consolidate our behavioral specification framework based on the Feather
Weight Visual Scenarios (FVS) language as a powerful tool to specify, verify and synthesize …

In a current application development scenario in different environments, technologies and
contexts, such as IoT, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing, there is a need …

This paper reports on the results of an exploratory case study on a large-scale Big Data
systems development project in the Oil&Gas domain within a non-profit organisation. The …

The elicitation, specification, analysis, prioritisation and management of system
requirements for large projects are known to be challenging. It involves a number of diverse …