Despite problems of definition, software complexity has long been recognised as a significant determinant of software product error content. Consequently a large number of empirical studies have attempted to quantify this relationship, using code and design structure measures as complexity indicators. With the increasing use of automated development tools in business software development, howev...

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has a strong impact on sustainable development due its rising demands for energy and resources needed when building hardware and software products. Most of the efforts spent on Green ICT/IT have been dedicated to addressing the effects of hardware on the environment but little have been considering the effects of building software products as well. Eff...

The development of electronic commerce (EC) systems is subject to different conditions than that of conventional software systems. Examples of such differentiating conditions are that the development requires the integration of many systems from various suppliers and that content and functionality have to be coordinated closely. In addition, the roles involved in the development process, their ...

Effective and efficient information management and knowledge sharing has become an essential part of more and more professional tasks in the Product Development Process. Among the varius Knowledge Management technologies, ontologies offer new possibilities for representing, handling and retrieving product related knowledge, and for online collaboration. We conceived a Product Design Ontology (P...

A mashup application is a web application that combines contents from several sources into an integrated web experience A mashup tool is a software tool to assist users in developing web mashup application. Most of these tools are developed by employing end-users development approaches such as scripting, wire, widget, spreadsheet, and Programming by Demonstration. However, although these tools ...

This research is based on three drivers. Firstly, software development and deployment cycles are getting shorter and require automatic building and deployment processes. Secondly, elastic clouds are available for both hosting and development of applications. Thirdly, the increasingly popular DevOps introduces new organizational and business culture. This paper presents a research prototype and ...

Software tools processing partially common set of data should share an understanding of what these data mean. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve integration in Software Engineering Environments (SEE). In this paper we discuss an ontology-based approach to improve tool integration and present ODE, a...

Software Version Control Systems (VCSs) are used to store the versions of program source code created throughout the software development cycle. The traditional purpose of such systems has been mostly administrative, providing the safe storage of source code and the ability to recreate earlier versions, as well as tracking the progress of new feature development and problem resolution. Software...

The actual product ownership often remains with the manufacturer as functional (total care)products emerge in aerospace business agreements. The business risk is then transferred to themanufacturer why downstream knowledge needs to be available in the concept phase toconsider all product life cycle aspects. The aim of this work is to study how amultidisciplinary design tool can ...

In designing software applications, the enduring process faces realistic business challenges to overcome the restricted time, limited resources, and quality constraint in engineering paradigm. Overemphasizing the three engineering limitations upsets the balance of producing highest quality, shortest time, and lowest budget cost during product development lifecycle at the highest efficient mode....