Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2019.07.006,
T. Abdellatif, Luiz Fernando Capretz, D. Ho
{"title":"Automatic recall of software lessons learned for software project managers","authors":"T. Abdellatif, Luiz Fernando Capretz, D. Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2019.07.006,","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.07.006,","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121278139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2018.06.014
Muhammad Younas, D. Jawawi, I. Ghani, Terrence P. Fries, Rafaqut Kazmi
{"title":"Agile development in the cloud computing environment: A systematic review","authors":"Muhammad Younas, D. Jawawi, I. Ghani, Terrence P. Fries, Rafaqut Kazmi","doi":"10.1016/J.INFSOF.2018.06.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INFSOF.2018.06.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120058240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106321
V. Garousi, S. Bauer, M. Felderer
{"title":"NLP-assisted software testing: A systematic mapping of the literature","authors":"V. Garousi, S. Bauer, M. Felderer","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120442233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.07.011,
Luiz Fernando Capretz, F. Ahmed, F. Silva
{"title":"Soft sides of software","authors":"Luiz Fernando Capretz, F. Ahmed, F. Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.infsof.2017.07.011,","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.07.011,","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"2 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128108769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.04.006
Ronnie E. S. Santos, F. Silva, M. T. Baldassarre, C. Magalhães
{"title":"Benefits and limitations of project-to-project job rotation in software organizations: A synthesis of evidence","authors":"Ronnie E. S. Santos, F. Silva, M. T. Baldassarre, C. Magalhães","doi":"10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.04.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120484537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-01DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.01.006
M. Usman, Ricardo Britto, J. Börstler, E. Mendes
{"title":"Taxonomies in software engineering: A Systematic mapping study and a revised taxonomy development method","authors":"M. Usman, Ricardo Britto, J. Börstler, E. Mendes","doi":"10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.01.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.INFSOF.2017.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"118028247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Claudia P. Ayala, Xavier Franch, Helena Martins Marques
ContextSoftware Reference Architectures (SRAs) play a fundamental role for organizations whose business greatly depends on the efficient development and maintenance of complex software applications. However, little is known about the real value and risks associated with SRAs in industrial practice. ObjectiveTo investigate the current industrial practice of SRAs in a single company from the perspective of different stakeholders. MethodAn exploratory case study that investigates the benefits and drawbacks perceived by relevant stakeholders in nine SRAs designed by a multinational software consulting company. ResultsThe study shows the perceptions of different stakeholders regarding the benefits and drawbacks of SRAs (e.g., both SRA designers and users agree that they benefit from reduced development costs; on the contrary, only application builders strongly highlighted the extra learning curve as a drawback associated with mastering SRAs). Furthermore, some of the SRA benefits and drawbacks commonly highlighted in the literature were remarkably not mentioned as a benefit of SRAs (e.g., the use of best practices). Likewise, other aspects arose that are not usually discussed in the literature, such as higher time-to-market for applications when their dependencies on the SRA are managed inappropriately. ConclusionsThis study aims to help practitioners and researchers to better understand real SRAs projects and the contexts where these benefits and drawbacks appeared, as well as some SRA improvement strategies. This would contribute to strengthening the evidence regarding SRAs and support practitioners in making better informed decisions about the expected SRA benefits and drawbacks. Furthermore, we make available the instruments used in this study and the anonymized data gathered to motivate others to provide similar evidence to help mature SRA research and practice.
{"title":"Benefits and drawbacks of software reference architectures: A case study","authors":"Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Claudia P. Ayala, Xavier Franch, Helena Martins Marques","doi":"10.17632/Y5R8RZF3XG.243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17632/Y5R8RZF3XG.243","url":null,"abstract":"ContextSoftware Reference Architectures (SRAs) play a fundamental role for organizations whose business greatly depends on the efficient development and maintenance of complex software applications. However, little is known about the real value and risks associated with SRAs in industrial practice. ObjectiveTo investigate the current industrial practice of SRAs in a single company from the perspective of different stakeholders. MethodAn exploratory case study that investigates the benefits and drawbacks perceived by relevant stakeholders in nine SRAs designed by a multinational software consulting company. ResultsThe study shows the perceptions of different stakeholders regarding the benefits and drawbacks of SRAs (e.g., both SRA designers and users agree that they benefit from reduced development costs; on the contrary, only application builders strongly highlighted the extra learning curve as a drawback associated with mastering SRAs). Furthermore, some of the SRA benefits and drawbacks commonly highlighted in the literature were remarkably not mentioned as a benefit of SRAs (e.g., the use of best practices). Likewise, other aspects arose that are not usually discussed in the literature, such as higher time-to-market for applications when their dependencies on the SRA are managed inappropriately. ConclusionsThis study aims to help practitioners and researchers to better understand real SRAs projects and the contexts where these benefits and drawbacks appeared, as well as some SRA improvement strategies. This would contribute to strengthening the evidence regarding SRAs and support practitioners in making better informed decisions about the expected SRA benefits and drawbacks. Furthermore, we make available the instruments used in this study and the anonymized data gathered to motivate others to provide similar evidence to help mature SRA research and practice.","PeriodicalId":133352,"journal":{"name":"Inf. Softw. Technol.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130125549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}