Context: Software testing is a key aspect of software reliability and quality assurance in a context where software development constantly has to overcome mammoth challenges in a continuously changing environment. One of the characteristics of software testing is that it has a large intellectual capital component and can thus benefit from the use of the experience gained from past projects. Sof...

The management of distributed information systems is a complex and time consuming task. Concepts and tools to support experts with the design and operational control of such systems are summarized. An adaptive approach to system management is described, which is needed to handle changing demands during system evolvement. Relevant management tasks are identified and tools and facilities to suppo...

Purpose – The specific challenges which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face lead to a special knowledge management system with harmonised methods and supporting software tools. This paper seeks to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework is proposed as a layer concept to describe the special situation of knowledge management in SMEs. Based on this fra...

In this paper we present and discuss our experience in using software components in the development of a distributed telecommunications management system called SIS (System for the Integration of Supervision). In particular we discuss how we evaluated and selected software tools that became key components in the SIS platform. The use of software components showed to be a very important factor i...

Software engineering environments (SEEs) pose complex and critical requirements to the supporting repositories. Object-oriented Database Management Systems (ODBMSs) are expected to provide suitable features to successfully address these issues. SPADE is a process-centered SEE being developed at CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Milano. SPADE is built on top of an OODBMS and features process modeling a...

We present a database and a software tool, VisGraB, for benchmarking of methods for vision-based grasping of unknown objects with no prior object knowledge. The benchmark is a combined real-world and simulated experimental setup. Stereo images of real scenes containing several objects in different configurations are included in the database. The user needs to provide a method for grasp generati...

This article presents an unexplored perspective in personal information management (PIM): PIM strategy changes. In the first part of the paper, we introduce a naturalistic study we conducted in order to explore how people manage their information and how their strategies evolve. We propose a model for characterizing PIM strategy changes based on their cause, scope and action. Further, we presen...