A research framework for building SPI proposals in small organizations: the COMPETISOFT experience
Establishing a research strategy that is suitable for undertaking research on software engineering is vital if we are to guarantee that research products are developed and validated following a systematic and coherent method. We took this into account ...
Risk orientation in software testing processes of small and medium enterprises: an exploratory and comparative study
Risk orientation in testing is an important means to balance quality, time-to-market, and cost of software. Especially for small and medium enterprises (SME) under high competitive and economic pressure, risk orientation can help to focus testing ...
Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies
This paper reports on a grounded theory to study into software developers' use of software development processes in actual practice in the specific context of very small companies. This study was conducted in three very small software product companies ...
Model-driven development of high-assurance active medical devices
Advanced medical devices exploit the advantages of embedded software whose development is subject to compliance with stringent requirements of standardization and certification regimes due to the critical nature of such systems. This paper presents ...
Quality in model-driven engineering: a tertiary study
Model-driven engineering (MDE) is believed to have a significant impact in software quality. However, researchers and practitioners may have a hard time locating consolidated evidence on this impact, as the available information is scattered in several ...
Ontology-based automated support for goal---use case model analysis
Combining goal-oriented and use case modeling has been proven to be an effective method in requirements elicitation and elaboration. To ensure the quality of such modeled artifacts, a detailed model analysis needs to be performed. However, current ...
Staged model evolution and proactive quality guidance for model libraries
A variety of modeling approaches, including model-driven development, consider model reuse as one of their cornerstones, but lack support for model reuse. This may be due to the available model repositories that barely exceed support for enhanced ...
Comparison of a textual versus a graphical notation for the maintainability of MDE domain models: an empirical pilot study
Models are a useful tool to increase the developer's productivity and satisfaction when performing maintenance tasks. However, in order to maximise these advantages, the right selection of notations must be made. Unfortunately, the software engineering ...
Measuring the complexity of domain-specific languages developed using MDD
The standard ISO/IEC 25010 (SQuaRE) defines appropriateness as one of the three components of functional suitability, the other two components being completeness and correctness. As users of domain-specific language (DSL) are quite often domain experts ...
A systematic approach to evaluating domain-specific modeling language environments for multi-agent systems
Multi-agent systems (MASs) include multiple interacting agents within an environment to provide a solution for complex systems that cannot be easily solved with individual agents or monolithic systems. However, the development of MASs is not trivial due ...
Assessing and improving quality of QVTo model transformations
We investigate quality improvement in QVT operational mappings (QVTo) model transformations, one of the languages defined in the OMG standard on model-to-model transformations. Two research questions are addressed. First, how can we assess quality of ...
Timing consistency checking for UML/MARTE behavioral models
UML/MARTE model-driven development approaches are gaining attention in developing real-time embedded software (RTES). UML behavioral models with MARTE annotations are used to describe timing behaviors and timing characteristics of RTES. Particularly, ...
