Software engineering is an engineering discipline and use of sound engineering principles that concerned with the theories, method and tools with all aspect of software production. Requirement engineering is a branch of software engineering concerned with the real world goals for function and constraints on software systems. Requirement engineering is a process that establishes the foundation o...

This report describes a conceptual framework for supporting software engineering. The approach relies on object-oriented concepts, but is not limited to object-oriented software engineering. The basic idea is the notion of a three-dimensional graph structure, which serves to capture and to classify development activities and their resulting documents (the elements of software engineering). The ...

In object-oriented (OO) software engineering, objects, attributes and processes are often specified in natural language descriptions. Following a precise methodology, we here look at the analysis phase of OO software engineering and show that robust computational linguistic tools initially developed for knowledge extraction from text can provide useful support during this initial but crucial ph...

Software organizations manage new software engineering tools through initiatives aimed at improving software processes and products. Each new initiative raises a number of engineering and management questions. As engineers we are feature and system oriented; we tend to focus on what a new tool can be used for. As managers we are effect and process oriented; we concentrate on how to implement th...

Recent developments in Web technologies – in particular through the Web services framework – have greatly enhanced the flexible and interoperable implementation of service-oriented software architectures. Many older Web-based and other distributed software systems will be re-engineered to a Web services-oriented platform. Using an advanced e-learning system as our case study, we investigate cen...

Aspect-oriented domain engineering is a promising extension to the domain engineering process. We present several lines of inquiry that demonstrate how domain engineering benefits from adopting aspectoriented software development concepts.

Development of software is a scientific and economic problem, particularly the design of complex systems whichrequire evolving methods and approaches. Agent technology is currently one of the most active and vibrant areas of IT research and development. Object-oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) has become an active area of research in recent years. In this paper, we review the framework of so...

Specification and design in relational databases largely use a domain-specific design approach (e.g., Entity-Relational Model) different from that used in software engineering. In software engineering, the use of UML (Unified Modeling Language) models, design patterns, and the Unified Process are the primary design and development methodology, especially in modern object-oriented software engin...

In recent years, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are proposed to develop complex distributed systems based upon the agent paradigm. The implementation for such systems has usually the form of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). MAS’ testing is a challenging task because these systems are often programmed to be autonomous and deliberative, and they operate in an open world, which...