Software organizations increasingly face contradictory strategic choices as they develop
customized and packaged solutions for the market. They need to improve efficiency of …

It is widely acknowledged that Requirements Engineering (RE) has an important implication
for the overall success of software or system development projects. As more and more …

The most significant benefits in software development can be achieved through
improvements in the front end activities. By improving these processes, the likelihood of …

We propose a new approach and related indicators for globally distributed software support
and development based on a 3‐year process improvement project in a globally distributed …

Fault localization is an important task in software testing process. The aim is to find latent
semantic faults which do not violate program syntactic rules. Statistical debugging …

It is widely acknowledged that Requirements Engineering (RE) has an important implication
on the overall success of software or system development projects. As more and more …

Continuous improvement of the software processes, including both production and
maintenance, is a necessary condition to ensure fundamental software quality. An …

Traditional systems development research largely adopts a negative view and focuses on
failures. In contrast, this study adopts a positive approach to improve current practices. We …

Many organizations have serious challenges in maintaining complex legacy software
systems to continue being competitive in today's fast-changing business. The challenges …

The motivation for this research initiated from the abrupt rise and fall of minicomputers which
were initially used both for industrial automation and business applications due to their …