In Global Software Engineering Research, there have been many studies carried out from the perspective of the company who is outsourcing software development. However, very few studies focus on the companies to whom the ...

We consider the problem of supporting effective code reuse as part of Software Product Line Engineering. Our approach is based on code forking – a practice commonly used in industry where new products are created by ...

Variability management (VM) is a fundamental activity of software product line engineering (SPLE). VM explicitly represents software artifact variations for managing dependencies among SPL variants and support their ...

Developing software for the manufacture of medical devices is a sensitive operation from many perspectives, such as: safety and regulatory compliance. Medical Device companies are required to have a well defined development ...

Method engineering approaches are often based on the assumption that method users are able to explicitly express their situational method requirements. However, similar to software requirements,situational method requirements ...

Systems development methods are used to express and communicate knowledge about systems and software development processes; i.e. methods encapsulate knowledge. Since methods encapsulate knowledge, they also encapsulate ...

Microblogging is one of the popular forms of social media that has quickly permeated both enterprise and open source communities. However, how exactly open source communities can leverage microblogging is not yet ...

This paper deals with concepts, challenges and design alternatives for the application of RFID technology within an industry context. We are especially interested in the combination of RFID technology with positioning ...

Fault tolerance is very important for complex component-based software systems, but its configuration is complicated and challenging. In this paper, we propose a model driven approach to semi-automatic configuration ...