Standard distribution middleware has recently emerged as a potential solution to interconnect distributed systems in the avionics domain, as it would bring important benefits throughout the software development process. A remaining challenge, however, is reducing the complexity associated with current distribution standards which leads to prohibitive certification costs. To overcome this comple...

In the context of safety-critical systems, which are real-time reactive systems, testing process must be integrated with the software development process as a whole, not just with the end product. Consequently, measuring the efficiency of the testing process emerges as an important issue. To be accurate and meaningful, both the measurement and the components to be measured must be precisely des...

In global software development (GSD) projects, all team members (e.g., project manager, quality assurance, technical leader, and developer) can benefit from being aware on the project status regarding their area of responsibility. While there is considerable attention on providing project overview data and tool support to the project manager, there is only weak support for the other roles, resu...