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PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications: A Replicated Study
In this paper we apply a measurement procedure proposed by van Heeringen and van Gorp to approximate the COSMIC size of mobile applications. We compare this procedure with the one ...
Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Pasquale Salza...
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
Issue Dynamics in Github Projects
Abstract. Issue repositories are used to keep of track of bugs, development tasks and feature requests in software development projects. In the case of open source projects, everyo...
Riivo Kikas, Marlon Dumas, Dietmar Pfahl
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
A Case Study on Artefact-Based RE Improvement in Practice
Background: Most requirements engineering (RE) process improvement approaches are solution-driven and activity-based. They focus on the assessment of the RE of a company against an...
Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagn...
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
Performance Engineering for Industrial Embedded Data-Processing Systems
Abstract. Performance is a key aspect of many embedded systems, embedded data processing systems in particular. System performance can typically only be measured in the later stage...
Martijn Hendriks, Jacques Verriet, Twan Basten, Ma...
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
Designing a Maturity Model for Software Startup Ecosystems
Resulting from the technological revolution from the last decades, we observed many software startup ecosystems emerging around the globe. Having tech entrepreneurs as their main a...
Daniel Cukier, Fabio Kon, Norris Krueger
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
From Function Points to COSMIC - A Transfer Learning Approach for Effort Estimation
Software companies exploit data about completed projects to estimate the development effort required for new projects. Software size is one of the most important information used t...
Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci...
PROFES
2015
Springer
8 years 11 days ago
A Method for Requirements Capture and Specification Based on Disciplined Use Cases and Screen Mockups
: We present a novel method for capturing and writing requirements specifications that enriches disciplined use cases with screen mockups. Disciplined use cases are characterized b...
Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
PPPJ
2015
ACM
8 years 11 days ago
Runtime Code Generation and Data Management for Heterogeneous Computing in Java
GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) and other accelerators are nowadays commonly found in desktop machines, mobile devices and even data centres. While these highly parallel processor...
Juan José Fumero, Toomas Remmelg, Michel St...
PPPJ
2015
ACM
8 years 11 days ago
Identifying Test Refactoring Candidates with Assertion Fingerprints
Test cases constitute around 30% of the codebase of a number of large software systems. Poor design of test suites hinders test comprehension and maintenance. Developers often cop...
Zheng Felix Fang, Patrick Lam
PPPJ
2015
ACM
8 years 11 days ago
Improving the Interoperation between Generics Translations
Generics on the Java platform are compiled using the erasure transformation, which only supports by-reference values. This causes slowdowns when generics operate on primitive type...
Vlad Ureche, Milos Stojanovic, Romain Beguet, Nico...