In this section we will review literature on open source software development projects, focusing on their expended effort as well as achieved efficiency. The paper is based mostly on empirical analyses of open source communities. The main method employed is mining the associated software repositories which are publicly available and contain records of past interactions between participants, or ...

Despite its essential role in educational reform, professional development typically does not receive adequate support in systemic reform efforts. This article presents an exception—a state that incorporated professional development as a central priority in its reform effort and four schools that used state resources to build their capacity for enacting the reform agenda. We describe central fe...

Effort estimation is the first of many steps in the software development process that can lead to a successful project’s completion. It is a complex task, that constitutes the basis for all subsequent steps related to planing and management. Effort estimation is also a very important part in agile software development projects. In order to achieve the highest possible levels of accuracy, softwa...

The management and control of software processes has assumed increasing importance in recent times. The ability to obtain accurate and consistent indications of, for example, system quality, developer productivity and schedule projections is an essential component of effective project management. This paper focuses on these ‘traditional’ software engineering issues in relation to the developmen...

Component-based software development (CBD) is an emerging discipline that promises to take software engineering into a new era. Building on the achievements of object-oriented software construction, CBD aims to deliver software engineering from a cottage industry into an industrial age for Information Technology, wherein software can be assembled from components, in the manner that hardware sys...

Several factors characterise the costs of the software development (such as general costs, hardware, human resources, etc.). Nevertheless, it is widely recognised that the main factor is the “effort”, meant as the amount of time spent to complete the project, expressed in terms of person-hours or man-months. So, the competitiveness of a software company heavily depends on the ability of its pro...

For a successful project development, it is important for any software organization that the project should be completed within time and budget, and the project should have requisite quality. This paper presents an Ensemble learning based Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Software Development Time Estimation. The concept behind this technique is based on ensemble learning methods. This techniqu...