Software process white box modelling for FEAST/1

White Box Software Development

This article attempts to debunk the populist view that building high quality software is difficult and costly, and that having software systems that crash is an acceptable state of affairs. The technology to build predictable reliable software systems exists today. Principled engineering judgment can be used to tailor software development so that quality can be built in with cost in mind – this...

Software Process Modelling

In this paper the most relevant works related to software process are reviewed. Software process modelling tries to capture the main characteristics of the set of activities performed to obtain a software product, and a variety of models have been created for this purpose. A process model can be used to define a recommended software process. This paper deals with the prescriptive software proce...

Web-based Support for White Box Software Estimation

Most commercial estimation tools can be considered as black boxes in that they do not provide details of the samples used to build their estimates. With the availability of the ISBSG international repository of 2000+ software projects, it is now feasible to develop white box estimation models which provide additional insights into the strengths and limitations of software estimates. This paper ...

Using UML for Software Process Modelling

Modelling A Software Evolution Process

This paper describes a high-level System Dynamics model of a real-world software evolution process. This process is evolving the kernel (low-level routines) of VME, the operating system of a long-lived and successful series of ICL mainframe computers. The model has been developed as part of the continuing FEAST project, which is investigating the role and impact of feedback in the global softwa...