During the last two decades a universal agreement has been established on the fact that software inspections play a fundamental role in improving software quality. The number of software organizations that have incorporated formal reviews in their development process is constantly increasing and the belief that efficient inspections can not only detect defects but also reduce cycle time and low...

Agile software development methods mainly aim at increasing software quality by fostering customer collaboration and performing exhaustive testing. The introduction of Extreme Programming (XP) – the most common agile software development method – into an organization is accompanied with conceptual and organizational changes. These changes range from daily-life changes (e.g., sitting together an...

1. Objectives The AMEISE (A Media Education Initiative for Software Engineering) approach focuses on the simulation of software project management processes. Based on Stuttgart University's SESAM (Software Engineering Simulation by Animated Models) [1], the AMEISE tool-set allows for repeatedly experiencing the complexity of software project management within a game-like simulation environment ...

Estimating the effort and cost, and developing the project schedule are very important for building a successful software project. But estimation is hard. There is always pressure from project sponsor and management for software development team to commit to shorter schedule and lower cost. It is no exception for testing. Test is a key activity for software quality. Some of the main challenges ...

the issue of successful project management and control is of vital importance in today’s world. although the time and cost of any project is determined in advance, paying less attention to an appropriate control and revision will result in a small chance of reaching those goals. the earned value management method that shows deviation of projects schedules and costs is of the good method for thi...

Many related software applications can be employed at various stages of a project, at different locations and for disparate purposes. Integrating these tools can help extend the capabilities of individual software applications. This paper addresses some of the issues related to the integration of distributed software applications as Web services. Specifically, information modeling for project m...

In software project management, there are five basic factors to predict and control, those are size, process, effort, environment and quality. Most of the software engineers focus on these factors to improve the software quality. In practice quality management implies finding defects and rectifying them. Software defects are not well enough understood to provide a clear methodology for avoiding...

Project management is an important factor to accomplish the decision to implement large-scale software systems (LSS) in a successful manner. The effective project management comes into play to plan, coordinate and control such a complex project. Project management factor has been argued as one of the important Critical Success Factor (CSF), which need to be measured and monitored carefully duri...