Within the software engineering field, researchers have investigated whether it is possible and useful to summarize software artifacts, in order to provide developers with concise representations of the content of the original artifacts. As an initial step towards automatic summarization of source code, we conducted an empirical study where a group of Java developers provided manually written s...

Version control systems (VCS) are widely-used in the software industry. They provide a powerful, collaborative framework that allows software engineers to work together effectively. VCS allow users to track changes and merge ongoing work into concurrently evolving software projects. Distributed VCS such as Git, allow a great degree of flexibility, and provide powerful options for managing perso...

Amongst the research of institutional logics, field-level logics have continuously gained interest among scholars. A cultural emergence model of field-level logics was proposed in the latest development of the institutional logics perspective (Thornton et al. 2012). This study aims to validate a section of the model: the relationship between resource environment and emergence and evolution of f...

Development of commercial web systems is laborious, lengthy and costly. This is partly due to the fact that the methods of their development can hardly cope with the complexity of provided services. Such services may need to be distributed and collaborative, require sophisticated software architecture, be rich in form, content and interactivity, and have a wide range of potentially casual users...

this study investigated the manifestation of bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt) in two series of young and adult teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) textbooks. to this end, the contents of the textbooks were analyzed based on a coding scheme. the results showed statistically significant differences between the different volumes of young learners’ series and between the two serie...

Web access for users with disabilities is an important goal and challenging problem for web content developers and designers. This paper presents a comparison of different methods for finding accessibility problems affecting users who are blind. Our comparison focuses on techniques that might be of use to Web developers without accessibility experience, a large and important group that represen...

Software security has blossomed nicely in the last few years with the appearance of new text books, new courses, and a government mandate, yet there are many people still to be educated. Savvy security people from the operations side tend to decry the cluelessness of software developers, putting the blame for our current software problems squarely on the shoulders of the "builders." However, bu...

A Technology Enhanced Interaction Framework has been developed to support designers and developers designing and developing technology enhanced interactions for complex scenarios involving disabled people. Issues of motivation, time, and understanding when validating and evaluating the Technology Enhanced Interaction Framework were identified through a literature review and questionnaires and i...

Developers of distributed multimedia applications face a diversity of multimedia formats, streaming platforms and streaming protocols. Furthermore, support for end-to-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) is a crucial factor for the development of future distributed multimedia systems. This paper discusses the architecture, design and implementation of a Quality of Service (QoS) aware middleware platfor...