Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant
measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such …

An important goal of most empirical software engineering research is the transfer of research
results to industrial applications. Two important obstacles for this transfer are the lack of …

Modern database applications are among the most widely used and complex software
systems. They constantly evolve, responding to changes to data, database schemas, and …

We propose static program analysis techniques for identifying the impact of relational
database schema changes upon object-oriented applications. We use dataflow analysis to …

Nowadays, data-intensive applications tend to access their underlying database in an
increasingly dynamic way. The queries that they send to the database server are usually …

Objective: To improve the qualitative data obtained from software engineering experiments
by gathering feedback during experiments. Rationale: Existing techniques for collecting …

Data-intensive software systems are generally made of a database and a collection of
application programs in strong interaction with the former. They constitute critical assets in …

Data-intensive systems are subject to continuous evolution that translates ever-changing
business and technical requirements. System evolution usually constitutes a highly complex …

Understanding the links between application programs and their database is useful in
various contexts such as migrating information systems towards a new database platform …

Business process management aims to align the business processes of an organisation with
customers' needs. Such alignment is of particular importance for services and requires a …