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Process verification has become an essential activity to correct and to remove errors before process execution. Typical process verification ecosystems propose to express properties to be verified on the process. When a process is adapted, the existing ...

Over the decades, a variety of software development processes have been proposed, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. It is however widely accepted that there is no single process that is perfectly suited to all settings, thus a software ...

Processes constrain developer freedom and impact software development cost. They can increase costs from only a few cents to almost 1000 USD per line of code. But they can also benefit the maintainability, dependability and safety of critical software. ...

Context: To be more flexible, companies call more and more for an independence between development tools and processes. To enable this form of decoupling we need to understand the interrelation of processes and development tools. However, knowledge ...

Code review in practice is often performed change-based, i.e. using the code changes belonging to a task to determine which code to review. In previous studies, it was found that two variations of this process are used in industry: Pre commit review (...

Today's software projects face an environment of continuous change and evolution. In order to handle evolution in development environments (e.g., requirements, technology) effectively, over the last decades well-established development processes have ...

Effort estimation is more challenging in an agile context, as instead of exerting strict control over changes in requirements, dynamism is embraced. Current practice relies on expert judgment, where the accuracy of estimates is sensitive to the ...

Software cost and effort estimation is a necessary step in the software development lifecycle to track progress, manage resources, and negotiate. Though many accepted cost models exist, local calibration results in more accurate estimates. Locally ...

In this paper we explore opportunities, challenges, and obstacles that Functional Size Measurement (FSM) experts assume to be in automatically derived functional size, directly from the software project code itself. We designed a structured survey, that ...

Context: It is well known that in software engineering, software or system development processes are very important for getting a high quality product. Such processes can be described in many different ways, from textual documents to existing modeling ...

Very recently, an increasing number of software companies adopted DevOps to adapt themselves to the ever-changing business environment. While it is important to mature adoption of the DevOps for these companies, no dedicated maturity models for DevOps ...

The research literature informs us that a software development process should be appropriate to its software development context but there is an absence of explicit guidance on how to achieve the harmonization of a development process with the ...

Software systems are becoming increasingly complex. Within safety critical domains such as medical device software, this increasing complexity is placing growing demands on manufacturers who must ensure their software not only meets functional ...

In this paper, we attempt to understand what contributes to a successful process for managing legacy system evolution. We provide an analysis of a number of key performance indicators such as cost, duration, and defects. By normalizing through function ...

Mobile medical apps play an important role within the healthcare industry. Developers of mobile medical apps need to understand what is required when a mobile application fulfils the definition of a medical device. Such applications have to be developed ...