Context. Distributed software development is currently a modern practice in software industry. This is especially true in Open Source Software (OSS) development community. Understanding how developers’ practices are on those projects may guide communities to successfully manage their projects. Goal. We mined two repositories of the Apache Httpd project in order to gather information about its d...

Software release management is the process through which software is made available to and obtained by its users. Until now, this process has been relatively straightforward. However, the emergence of component-based software is complicating software release management. Increasingly, software is constructed via the assembly of pre-existing, independently produced, and independently released com...

Software is typically big and complex. Software metrics provide measurements of software products and development processes, in order to help software developers understand and improve their products. Metrics, however, can add to developers’ information overload problems, so visualisation techniques are needed to allow large volumes of measurement data to be efficiently communicated to an obser...

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile to...

Requirements that express the needs of all stakeholders and cover the key aspects of a software system (such as those addressing sustainability) are critical to the system’s successful development and adoption. For practitioners who want to develop sustainable software-intensive systems, it is also argued that software requirements are the key leverage point. But what do software developers kno...

There is continuing pressure on Software Developers to improve both the quality and speed of development of software. One response is to review and to improve the software development process. There are accepted schemes [4, 7] which attempt to classify the software development process (not the software produced) according a measure of its "quality" or "maturity". However, few software developer...

Software Engineering Australia and the Software Quality Institute undertook a survey in 1999 to evaluate the level of adoption of best practice by software developers in Queensland. This paper explains how the survey evaluated the software processes in use and then describes a Process Improvement Program undertaken to measure the capability of software developers, based on the Software Process ...