Software development within regulated settings is becoming more and more common place. Compliance typically involves saying what you do and doing what you say. However, in some domains, especially safety-critical ones, it ...
Vassev, Emil; Hinchey, Mike; Gaudin, Benoit(Association for Computing Machinery, 2012)
An autonomic system is considered to be a self-adaptive system that changes its behavior in response to stimuli from its execution and operational environment. Such behavior is considered autonomic and self-adaptive and ...
Buglione, Luigi; Hauck, Jean Carlo R.; Gresse von Wangenheim, Christiane; Mc Caffery, Fergal(2012)
Estimation represents one of the most critical processes for any project and it is highly dependent on the quality of requirements elicitation and management. Therefore, the management of requirements should be prioritised ...
Casey, Valentine; Mc Caffery, Fergal(EuroSPI, 2012)
This paper outlines the development and implementation of Medi SPICE-Adept. Medi SPICE-Adept is a lightweight assessment method that has been designed for usage with the Medi SPICE software process assessment and improvement ...
Casey, Valentine; Mc Caffery, Fergal(Springer, 2012)
As the importance and complexity of medical device software continues to increase there is growing demand for effective process assessment and improvement in this domain. To address this need the Medi SPICE process assessment ...
The paper is a research-in-progress that focuses
on examining the applicability of lean principles to
the crowdsourcing process. While crowdsourcing is
seen as an excellent exemplar of open innovation,
there is no ...
Cfarku, Denada; Taher, Yehia; Haque, Rafiqul; Van den Heuvel, Willem-Jan; Papazoglou, Michael P(Springer, 2012)
The increasing complexity of the business transaction results in a
higher potential risk in terms of SLA violation. The fulfillment of the QoS
constraints specified in global SLA can be threatened at any time by ...
Service comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which exchange various resources
and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer resources and competencies, yet they remain an
underexplored ...
The discipline of service science encourages the need to develop alternative and more scientific approaches to conceptualise modern service network environments. This chapter identifies the opportunity to apply organisational ...
Regan, Gilbert; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Mc Daid, Kevin; Flood, Derek(2012)
Traceability of software artifacts, from
requirements to design and through implementation and
quality assurance, has long been promoted by the research
and expert practitioner communities. However, evidence
indicates ...