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Nowadays, Software Process Improvement popularly known as SPI has been able to receive an immense concern in the continuous process to purify software quality. Several Agile methodologies previously have worked with Extreme programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Md. Habibur Rahman , Ziaur Rahman , Md. Al - Mustanjid , Muhammad Shahin Uddin , Mehedy Hasan Rafsan Jany

Workflow support typically focuses on single simulation experiments. This is also the case for simulation based on finite element methods. If entire simulation studies shall be supported, flexible means for intertwining revising the model,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Andreas Ruscheinski , Pia Wilsdorf , Julius Zimmermann , Ursula van Rienen , Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Assessing processes is one of the best ways for an organization to start a software process improvement program. An alternative for organizations seeking for lighter assessments methods is to perform self-assessments, which can be carried…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Thaísa C. Lacerda , Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim , Jean C. R. Hauck

Artefacts play a vital role in software and systems development processes. Other terms like documents, deliverables, or work products are widely used in software development communities instead of the term artefact. In the following, we use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-08 D. Méndez Fernández , W. Böhm , A. Vogelsang , J. Mund , M. Broy , M. Kuhrmann , T. Weyer

The IT Service Management (ITSM) industry has defined processes as best practices in the widely-accepted IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. However, studies on the measurement of ITSM process improvement are scant. Our research…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Anup Shrestha , Aileen Cater-Steel , Mark Toleman

Artifact evaluation has been adopted in the Software Engineering (SE) research community for 15 years, substantially improving research reproducibility across major SE conferences. However, this success has introduced a growing scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhaonan Wu , Yanjie Zhao , Zhenpeng Chen , Zheng Wang , Haoyu Wang

Agile methods are increasingly introduced in automotive companies in the attempt to become more efficient and flexible in the system development. The adoption of agile practices influences communication between stakeholders, but also makes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rebekka Wohlrab , Patrizio Pelliccione , Eric Knauss , Mats Larsson

In an offline reinforcement learning setting, the safe policy improvement (SPI) problem aims to improve the performance of a behavior policy according to which sample data has been generated. State-of-the-art approaches to SPI require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Patrick Wienhöft , Marnix Suilen , Thiago D. Simão , Clemens Dubslaff , Christel Baier , Nils Jansen

Satisfactory software performance is essential for the adoption and the success of a product. In organizations that follow traditional software development models (e.g., waterfall), Software Performance Engineering (SPE) involves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Gunnar Kudrjavets , Jeff Thomas , Nachiappan Nagappan

Safe policy improvement (SPI) is an offline reinforcement learning problem in which a new policy that reliably outperforms the behavior policy with high confidence needs to be computed using only a dataset and the behavior policy. Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Kasper Engelen , Guillermo A. Pérez , Marnix Suilen

In Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE), a portfolio of similar systems is developed from a shared set of software assets. Claimed benefits of SPLE include reductions in the portfolio size, cost of software development and time to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Julia Rubin , Thomas Thüm

Project Management process plays a significant role in effective development of software projects. Key challenges in the project management process are the estimation of time, cost, defect count, and subsequently selection of apt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Shashikumar N. R. , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Suma V

Many methods have been proposed to estimate how much effort is required to build and maintain software. Much of that research assumes a ``classic'' waterfall-based approach rather than contemporary projects (where the developing process may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Tianpei Xia , Rui Shu , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Using cloud-based computer vision services is gaining traction, where developers access AI-powered components through familiar RESTful APIs, not needing to orchestrate large training and inference infrastructures or curate/label training…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

This paper presents the components of a newly developed Malaysian SMEs - Software Process Improvement model (MSME-SPI) that can assess SMEs soft-ware development industry in managing and improving their software processes capability. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Malek Almomani , Shuib Basri , Omar Almomani , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Abdullateef Balogun , Moath Husni , Abdul Rehman Gilal

The HIFI data processing pipeline was developed to systematically process diagnostic, calibration and astronomical observations taken with the HIFI science instrumentas part of the Herschel mission. The HIFI pipeline processed data from all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 K. Edwards , R. F. Shipman , D. Kester , A. Lorenzani , M. Melchior

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a valuable technique by which one can investigate the physical characteristics of the surfaces of materials. However, its widespread use is hampered by the time-consuming nature of running an experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-03 Nicholas J. Sullivan , Julio J. Valdés , Kirk H. Bevan , Peter Grutter

In diverse industrial and academic environments, the quality of the software has been evaluated using different analytic studies. The contribution of the present work is focused on the development of a methodology in order to improve the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Leticia Dávila-Nicanor , Pedro Mejía-Alvarez

Peer review in software engineering research operates under tight time constraints, while generative AI has substantially reduced the human effort required to produce polished research narratives. Reviewer attention is often spent on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Christoph Treude , Christopher M. Poskitt , Rashina Hoda

This paper discusses a model-based approach to validate software requirements in agile development processes by simulation and in particular automated testing. The use of models as central development artifact needs to be added to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Jewgenij Botaschanjan , Markus Pister , Bernhard Rumpe