Agile methodologies have become increasingly popular for enhancing quality and customer
satisfaction, shortening delivery times, decreasing risk in changing environments, and …

Safety-critical systems manufacturers have the duty of care, ie, they should take correct steps
while performing acts that could foreseeably harm others. Commonly, industry standards …

To achieve software quality it is critical to quickly understand the current test status, its
changes over time as well as its relation to source code changes. However, even if this …

In order to construct three dimensional shape models of large scale architectures by a laser
range finder, a number of range images are normally taken from various viewpoints and …

We study in this work piloting agile practices in embedded space system development
projects. The case involves three companies acting as last or next to last subcontractors in a …

This paper summarizes some definition aspects from a doctoral research that has been
conducted at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA). This research has the …

This paper summarizes the preliminary aspects of a doctoral research that has been
conducted at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA). This research has the …

Medical device software development is subject to high regulations due to the potential risk
of harming patients with unsafe medical devices. These regulations require software …

Agile development methods are widely utilized in software development. There is a growing
interest and effort to introduce them to other areas of technology, such as development of …

The miniaturization of spacecraft has brough the possibility of conducting space missions to
a vast portion of private enterprises and scientific institutions. The inaccessibility of modest …