climate science

Developing Software Products for Mobile Markets: Need for Rethinking Development Models and Practices

On establishing the essential components of a technology-dependent framework

This paper presents a high-level view of a measurement framework that has been used with multiple agile software development industrial case studies and proposes that this technology-dependent framework can be used as a strawman for a guideline of data collection, analysis, and reporting of industrial case study resear...

Providing test quality feedback using static source code and automatic test suite metrics

Commitment to Software Process Improvement—Development of Diagnostic Tool to Facilitate Improvement1

Early results suggest that the behaviors introduced in the model are relevant in SPI initiatives, the use of model raises the awareness about the people issues in improving processes, and the model could be used aside with CMM, SPICE or other process improvement models.

Modelling Usability Capability - Introducing the Dimensions

This work proposes an enhanced model where the usability capability is analyzed from three dimensions: user- centered infrastructure, implementation of user-centered practices in development projects, and business management commitment to usability as a competitive asset.

The personal software process: experiences from Denmark

The findings indicate an improvement in effort estimation skills and an increase in the resulting product quality in terms of reduced total defect density and the use of the PSP method in the software industry is discussed.

Commitment Nets in Software Process Improvement

This study suggests that software organizations operate through strategic, operational and personal commitment nets, and shows that SPI is driven through the formation and reformation of commitment nets.

New directions on agile methods: a comparative analysis

Software Development under Stringent Hardware Constraints: Do Agile Methods Have a Chance?

The requirements for new agile methods targeted to facilitate the development of embedded software, based on an empirical study over a period of 12 months in theDevelopment of low-level telecommunications software, are defined.

On-Site Customer in an XP Project: Empirical Results from a Case Study

This empirical case demonstrates that while the customer was present close to 100% with the development team, only 21% of his work effort was required to assist the team in the development.

Mobile-D: an agile approach for mobile application development

The Mobile-D approach is briefly outlined here and the experiences gained from four case studies are discussed, which helped develop an agile development approach for mobile application development.

Improving Business Agility Through Technical Solutions: A Case Study on Test-Driven Development in Mobile Software Development

Results of a case study where a mobile application was developed for global markets, using the TDD approach show that the adoption of TDD is difficult and the potential agility benefits may not be readily available.