In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...
Since code revisions reflect the extent of human involvement in the software development process, revision histories reveal the interactions and interfaces between developers and...
Declarative models play an important role in most software design activities, by allowing designs to be constructed that selectively abstract over complex implementation details. ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Tony Griffiths, Norman W....
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
This paper reports on a project establishment undertaking as proposed by the STEPS methodology (Software Technology for Evolutionary Participatory System Design). Project establis...