Even though there has been a considerable amount of progress on software development tools, techniques, methodologies and SDLCs, still %68 of software development projects are unsuccessful. In this study, Flexible and Adaptive Life Cycle (FALC) Framework is introduced to manage the utilization of different SDLCs in the projects in order to increase success rates. The FALC Framework provides opp...

In most cases today information systems development involves the use of multiple development tools. The developer has the choice of many competing vendor tools to choose from, and the choices to be made are complex. Will the various tools work together, and which tool should be chosen for which task? This paper describes the development of a business simulation game, and the role various develo...

  Background: The current study aimed to develop a tool to assess the performance skills of Iranian children aged 5 to 7 years in order to evaluate their school competency based on the occupational therapy practice framework and to determine its validity.Materials and Methods: Performance skills are the cornerstone of the tool. The eight-step design process of Devellis was used to develop the t...

Many IT undergraduate programs neglect to address the importance of integrating information security into the software development lifecycle. SecSDM is an integrated, risk-based methodology for supporting IT undergraduate students in secure software development. A software tool, based on the SecSDM methodology, has been developed to provide a means by which to apply this methodology to software...

Lightweight, 'agile' software development methods are not a replacement for traditional, heavyweight methods. But under certain assumptions, they are a welcome alternative in many areas of software development. In this paper, we outline the di erences between agile and traditional approaches of software development and examine how development tools are used in the latter. We consider experience...

This paper is a preliminary attemps to serve as a reference of the state of the art of the techniques and tools related to ‘Game Design’ (GD). We analyze the relationship existing between Game Design and the main subareas related to Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games. Here, we focus particularly in Techniques and Tools that help in any way to designers involved in game development.

Model development is a difficult and timely process involving various steps to create, check and improve the model. Typically all kinds of software tools are used to facilitate this process. Central to model development is the model definition and we show that, apart from calculating model results, it can be used to tailor some of the tools used to the model at hand. This speeds up model develo...

This paper describes a case study about the experience in designing and implementing a software metrics program to measure and improve the process in a systems development organization. We explain how the metrics system was designed and implemented, including the use of a software tool we developed to collect and analyze the metrics results at all levels of the organization, and summarize the b...