Recent microprocessor advances have significantly improved the capabilities of on-chip performance monitoring hardware, as is evident in the Pentium 4 processor (Sprunt 2002a). However, the complexity of the performance monitoring hardware has also risen, making the tasks of understanding and using the performance monitoring hardware much more difficult for performance analysts and software dev...

Antipatterns have been mostly reported in closed source software environments. With the advent of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), researchers have started analysing popular FLOSS projects, seeking vitality indicators and success patterns. However, an impressively high percentage of FLOSS projects are unsuccessful. Moreover, even in the successful cases of FLOSS there can be found track...

This paper presents a value-based software process framework that has been derived from the 4+1 theory of value-based software engineering (VBSE). The value-based process framework integrates the four component theories – dependency, utility, decision, and control, to the central theory W, and orients itself as a 7-step process guide to practice value-based software engineering. We also illustr...