The use of a semester-long project to apply theoretical knowledge and provide “handson” experience has long been a staple of software engineering courses. Our experience shows that a typical industrial project can also enhance software engineering research and bring theories to life. The University of Kentucky (UK) is in the initial phase of developing a software engineering curriculum. The fir...

This paper presents a change impact analysis approach created as part of a model-driven development (MDD) environment. Its purpose is to give project stakeholders the ability to better assess the impact that requirement changes will impose on project schedule and budget. Using MDD techniques and visualization tools we were able to automate requirement change impact analysis. Therefore, the foll...

Domain knowledge is a crucial ingredient for companies developing software, yet little attention is paid on how to gain such knowledge in the software engineering literature. We here propose a study on using one largegroup intervention technique – Open Space Technology – to increase the domain knowledge of developers in a software project.

Investment in a constructed facility represents a cost in the short term that returns benefits only over the long term use of the facility. Thus, the costs occur earlier than the benefits, and the owners of facilities must obtain the capital resources to finance the costs of construction. A project cannot proceed without an adequate financing, and the cost of providing an adequate financing can...

In Japanese software development industry, there are few activities to objectively evaluate effectiveness or degree of improvement. The author believes empirical software engineering can solve this problem. This paper introduces an ongoing national project named EASE (Empirical Approach to Software Engineering). EASE project aims to introduce empirical approach into Japanese industry. This pape...

All large projects, from their inception to their completion, follow certain procedures, when undergoing evaluations of different designs, while at the same time, assuring project functionality at realistic costs which are acceptable to the owner. To keep project costs within certain parameters, there is a need to begin the project with a realistic budget and to have some reliable pricing data....

resource leveling and allocation are two basic categories for project management. the objective of resource allocation is to schedule activities so that a particular resource does not exceed a specific limit in any given project time period, while holding the project duration to a minimum. the resource leveling problem arises when there are sufficient resources available and it is necessary to ...

Developing software systems which are easy to use and increase the productivity of users is still a major challenge in software engineering. Thus a large number of usability engineering methods have been proposed to systematically develop software with high usability. However studies indicate that even basic usability engineering methods are not integrated in software development lifecycles pra...