During software engineering processes lots of artifacts are produced to document the development of a concrete software. For artifacts which are related with respect to their meaning for the development process, but which differ in their formal foundation, formal associations often do not exist or are not documented. This leads to gaps in the documentation of the software engineering process. T...

The do-it-yourself Web 2.0 culture is quickly creating and sharing more end-user produced content. Gradually moving from static content, such as pictures and text, to interactive content, such as end-user programmed games, the artifacts created and shared have become significantly more sophisticated. The next frontier to make end-user programming more social is to move beyond the current create...

In software engineering, reliability and development time are two of the most important aspects, therefore, modeling environments, which aide both, are widely used during software development. UML and OCL became industry standards, and are supported by many CASE tools. OCL code checking, which has to be performed by these tools, has a specialty, as not all of the information necessary for compi...

This paper proposes an approach to the prioritisation of system changes that takes account of the relative costs and benefits of those changes and the risks that they reduce or introduce. This is part of the SERUM methodology (Software Engineering Risk: Understanding and Management), which is being developed to help identify effective ways of using risk analysis and control in software producti...

Developers of interactive software are confronted by an increasing variety of software tools to help engineer the interactive aspects of software applications. Typically resorting to ad hoc means of tool selection, developers are often dissatisfied with their chosen tool on account of the fact that the tool lacks required functionality or does not fit seamlessly within the context in which it i...

Many NACCQ’s Diploma in Information of Communication Technology Level 5 and 6 students have limited knowledge of software development. This problem is especially evident in their understanding of system development life cycles, analysis of systems, or writing programmes. We report on the results of a project designed to teach students, even at this stage, to apply complex techniques and standar...