This paper presents an education framework to effectively develop crucial software engineering skills in students of the Telematics/Network Engineering curriculum at the Klagenfurt University of Applied Sciences. In order to establish such abilities we first lay a rather traditional lecture/lab-based foundation. On this grounds, a carefully designed project-centered approach bridges the gap bet...

A Project Scheduling Problem consists in deciding who does what during the software project lifetime. This is a capital issue in the practice of software engineering, since the total budget and human resources involved must be managed optimally in order to end in a successful project. In short, companies are principally concerned with reducing the duration and cost of projects, and these two go...

This paper examines the issues of assisting software project managers in the decision making processes involved in the planning, managing and executing of a software development project. The role of software project management tools is examined and a proposal for an intelligent assistant system for software project management is set forth. The rationale behind this proposal is outlined and the ...

It is well known that software outsourcing projects are more difficult to be managed because of cross organizations participated, especially for those projects with multiple level outsourcing. Although some software vendors passed the certification of CMMI or ISO9000, it is still a big challenge to execute a project in a consistent governance mechanism when the activities happened in different ...

During a software project’s lifetime, the software goes through many changes, as components are added, removed and modified to fix bugs and add new features. This paper is intended as a lightweight introduction to some of the issues arising from an ‘archaeological’ investigation of software evolution. We use our own work to look at some of the challenges faced, techniques used, findings obtaine...

Project management presents the manager with a complex set of related optimisation problems. Decisions made can more profoundly affect the outcome of a project than any other activity. In the chapter, we provide an overview of Search-Based Software Project Management, in which Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is applied to problems in software project management. We show how SBSE has be...

In this paper, the essential characteristics of software development projects in the open source environment are described. This model of freely distributed, highly decentralized, democratic software development with little management hierarchy, overhead, or salary compensation has made a revolution in the software industry. These open source projects, like typical commercial software projects,...

Using quantitative data from past projects for software project estimation requires context knowledge that characterizes its origin and indicates its applicability for future use. This article sketches the SPRINT I technique for project planning and controlling. The underlying prediction mechanism is based on the identification of similar past projects and the building of so-called clusters wit...

In order to prevent knowledge dispersion in the software architecting process, it is crucial to deploy sound mechanisms to manage and share vital architectural knowledge. Continuous organizational learning is an important vehicle to address this issue. We present a model that provides a generic structure for software architecture project memories. Key concepts in this model are design decisions...

Slice prooling is a tool which was developed as an aid in determining the cohesion of a software module. Slice prooles can be used, along with slice based metrics, during the maintenance phase of a software project to facilitate understanding of the system. In this paper, we present slice prooles and some slice based metrics. We then show, through an example, ways of utilizing these tools while...