This dissertation aims to narrow the user experience gap between the design and test phases in software development by offering UX tools for the developers.

When a linear model is rank-deficient, then predictions based on that model become questionable because not all predictions are uniquely estimable. However, some of them are, and the estimability package provides tools that package developers can use to tell which is which. With the use of these tools, a model object’s predict method could return estimable predictions as-is while flagging non-e...

Several success stories of open source (OS) products have been seen during last decade. Due to the economical importance of the products, it is important to know who are the ones who have the largest influence to the products. Therefore, studying demography of open source projects is essential. In this paper the aspect is studied with respect to the Linux Kernel. We show that the influence is c...

The present research aims to examine the effects of using culturally oriented texts in project-based classes on the views of EFL university students regarding their L1 culture. To this end, three experimental groups of intermediate EFL freshmen, assigned to classes A, B and C, participated in this study. Each of the classes were presented with reading passages focused on L1 culture, L2 culture,...

C REATING games is in essence a nontechnical task and, accordingly, creating computer games involves much more than just programming. First, there needs to be a game design. And then, depending on the game genre, there needs to be character models, maps, levels, boards, racing tracks, trees, rocks, weapons, textures, sound effects, quests, clouds, and so on. In many contemporary game production...

A bug is a system error that causes mismatch between user expectations to actualization. Bugs often arise from programmatical mistakes, and prompt resolution mandatory so the users’ business processes are assured. However, author has noted low efficiency of developers’ solving. After research, cause lack knowledge management, especially in tracking. This resulted repetition error. The developer...