Project management plays an important role in software engineering discipline. Project management is about delivering projects “on time”, “in budget” and “in quality”. Introducing, applying and improving project management process requires systematical and coordinated approach, which helps to overcome organizational barriers, reduce implementation cost, provide knowledge sharing and secure achi...

In recent years, many software development organizations have been assessing and analyzing their software product’s reliability/quality and judging whether the software product is releasable by using Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) at the final stage of software development. The usage of SRGMs originates in the advantage that various reliability analysis results based on the SRGMs ca...

In this article, we introduce a new concept in HERMES, the FP7 funded project in Europe, in developing technology innovations towards computer aided memory management via intelligent computation, and helping elderly people to overcome their decline in cognitive capabilities. In this project, an integrated computer aided memory management system is being developed from a strong interdisciplinary...

Continuous Integration (CI) environments cope with the repeated integration of source code changes and provide rapid feedback about the status of a software project. However, as the integration cycles become shorter, the amount of data increases, and the effort to find information in statically composed CI dashboards becomes substantial. We want to address the shortcoming of static views with a...

Businesses spend a significant amount of their IT budget on software application maintenance. Each firm’s portfolio of applications helps them run their daily operations, report their financials, and help them market and sell their products. Therefore, a firm’s ability to improve the quality and maintainability of these applications will have a significant impact on their bottom line as well as...