When software products are assembled from pre-defined components, performance prediction should be based on the components also. This supports rapid model-building, using previous...
The development of large software systems demands intensive cooperation among multiple project team members with different responsibilities. The development process is often distr...
As a software system evolves to accommodate new features and repair bugs, changes are needed. Software components are interdependent, changes made to one component can require cha...
There is still no standardization of software measures and metrics extraction tools have to be updated frequently to handle the changes. A possible solution is represented by usin...
Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, T...
‘‘Industrial strength’’ software development environments (SDEs) must provide facilities to address three essential properties of multi-developer software systems: evoluti...