The need for constructing software development methods that have been tailored to fit specific situations and requirements has given rise to the generation of general method fragments, or process patterns. Process patterns can be seen in some third-generation integrated methodologies (such as OPEN) and in Method Engineering approaches where they are used as process components. They have also be...

M anaging innovation in enterprise has always been a complex task, but it’s become even more so as organizations become more globally distributed and new digital technologies proliferate. Some studies of IT companies have used agile approaches in software development and the IT-enabled global innovation ecosystem,1–4 whereas others focus on IT’s effects on innovation.5,6 However, it’s hard to f...

Software Process Improvement is one of the main software development challenges. Unfortunately, process descriptions generally do not correspond to the processes actually performed during software development projects. They just represent high-level plans and do not contain the information necessary in a software project. This lack of alignment between the process and project is caused by proce...

In recent years, agile development methodologies have attracted great attention. Although the success of agile development projects depends considerably on the willingness of customers to actively participate, little research has examined which factors of such methodologies customers perceive as benefits or drawbacks. Employing an exploratory, primarily qualitative study design and the Diffusio...

Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is complying with the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process. Automated recognition of TDD could benefit the software engineering community in a variety of ways, from pedagogical aids to support the learning of test-driven design, to support for more rigorous empirical studies on the effectiveness of TDD in practice. This ...

In order to create successful software or systems, user involvement is one of the essential activities in software development process. In the user involvement, participant attitudes and their knowledge level about the software are substantially related to the quality of participant feedback. Particularly, in focus group test, which is one of the most widely used methods for attaining user feed...

In the recent past, software product line engineering has become one of the most promising practices in software industry with the potential to substantially increase the software development productivity. Software product line engineering approach spans the dimensions of business, architecture, software engineering process and organization. The increasing popularity of software product line en...

Refactoring support is currently aimed at automatically finding and applying individual transformation steps. Some techniques exist to suggest wider design changes that can be made to a system in order to improve certain design characteristics. Therefore, the sequence of refactorings needed to perform the proposed changes must be found by the developer. Support for complex refactoring sequences...