This paper describes a tool that manages a hierarchical, “is a subsystem of”-structure on a set of software development artefacts and that provides configuration management (CM) for subsystems by interacting with an existing CM tool. The tool is based on a recently proposed framework for subsystem-based configuration management. The tool demonstrates the feasibility of the framework and develop...

For software development companies, one of the most important objectives is to identify and acquire talented software engineers in order to maintain a skilled team that can produce competitive products. Traditional approaches for finding talented young software engineers are mainly through programming contests of various forms which mostly test participants’ programming skills. However, success...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has a history of research related to software development processes and productivity over the last 40 years. Recently software has penetrated into almost every industry, thus every company is a software company now. Parallel to the history of ALM process models, at first it was considered synonymous to waterfall. However with the questioning of the success...

Software development is an expanding activity. Responding to its needs efficiently, with quality and low cost demands an intense learning, to prevent the repetition of the same mistake twice. One way to meet this goal consists of capturing organization’s knowledge and makes it available to all their members through the use of knowledge management systems. In this paper, we discuss the importanc...