scholarly journals A Framework for Software Preservation

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Matthews ◽  
Arif Shaon ◽  
Juan Bicarregui ◽  
Catherine Jones
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Performance Model ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product

Software preservation has not had detailed consideration as a research topic or in practical application. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework to capture and organise the main notions of software preservation, which are required for a coherent and comprehensive approach.  This framework has three main aspects. Firstly a discussion of what it means to preserve software via a performance model which considers how a software artefact can be rebuilt from preserved components and can then be seen to be representative of the original software product. Secondly the development of a model of software artefacts, describing the basic components of all software, loosely based on the FRBR model for representing digital artefacts and their history within a library context. Finally, the definition and categorisation of the properties of software artefacts which are required to ensure that the software product has been adequately preserved. These are broken down into a number of categories and related to the concepts defined in the OAIS standard. We also discuss our experience of recording these preservation properties for a number of BADC software products, which arose from a series of case studies conducted to evaluate the software preservation framework, and also briefly describe the SPEQS toolkit, a tool to capture software preservation properties within a software development.

scholarly journals End-User Software Development: Effectiveness of a Software Engineering-Centric Instructional Strategy

10.28945/4580 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 367-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilenia Fronza ◽  
Luis Corral ◽  
Claus Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Instructional Strategy ◽  
End Users ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
End User ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product

Aim/Purpose: This work aims to introduce and evaluate an instructional strategy that aids end-users with developing their software products during intensive project-based events. Background: End-users produce software in the labor market, and one of the challenges for End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is the need to create functional software products without a formal education in software development. Methodology: In this work, we present an instructional strategy to expose end-users to Agile-based Software Engineering (SE) practices and enhance their ability to developing high-quality software. Moreover, we introduce a SE approach for the collection of metrics to assess the effectiveness of the instructional strategy. We conducted two case studies to validate the effectiveness of our strategy; the comprehensive analysis of the outcome products evaluates the strategy and demonstrates how to interpret the collected metrics. Contribution: This work contributes to the research and practitioner body of knowledge by leveraging SE centric concepts to design an instructional strategy to lay the foundations of SE competencies in inexperienced developers. This work presents an instructional strategy to develop SE competencies through an intensive and time-bound structure that may be replicated. Moreover, the present work introduces a framework to evaluate these competencies from a product-centric approach, specialized for non-professional individuals. Finally, the framework contributes to understanding how to assess software quality when the software product is written in non-conventional, introductory programming languages. Findings: The results show the effectiveness of our instructional strategy: teams were successful in constructing a working software product. However, participants did not display a good command of source code order and structure. Recommendations for Practitioners: Our instructional strategy provides practitioners with a framework to lay foundations in SE competencies during intensive project-based events. Based on the results of our case studies, we provide a set of recommendations for educational practice. Recommendation for Researchers: We propose an assessment framework to analyze the effectiveness of the instructional strategy from a SE perspective. This analysis provides an overall picture of the participants’ performance; other researchers could use our framework to evaluate the effectiveness of their activities, which would contribute to increasing the possibility of comparing the effectiveness of different instructional strategies. Impact on Society: Given the number of end-user developers who create software products without a formal SE training, several professional and educational contexts can benefit from our proposed instructional strategy and assessment framework. Future Research: Further research can focus on improving the assessment framework by including both process and product metrics to shed light on the effectiveness of the instructional strategies.

Digital education: Using electronic resources in psychological support of the educational process

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Ju. A. Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Software Products ◽  
School Year ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The City

The article discusses the development trends of the modern preschool education system in the aspect of the activity of the teacherpsychologist of the preschool educational organization. The experience of using 1C software products in the practical work of the psychological service of kindergarten 318 of the city of Perm in the aspects of psychological monitoring of children’s readiness to study at school and correctional and developmental work with preschool children is presented. The components of the child’s psychological readiness for school are described. On practical examples, diagnostic methods for determining the level of readiness of children for schooling are analyzed. The data of testing kindergarten pupils at the beginning of the 2019/2020 school year on the parameters allowing to identify urgent problems and determine the direction of the necessary correctional development work are presented. Features of the practical application of the software product 1C:Preschool Psychodiagnostics in the process of psychological support of preparing children for school are considered. Methods are described, the scope of which is aimed not only at the study of personality traits, but also at its development. The possibilities of using games of the 1C:Educational Collection in the correctional and developmental work are disclosed. The description of game collections is given, options for their use are presented.

scholarly journals A Formal Protocol to Conduct Usability Heuristic Evaluations in the Context of the Software Development Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freddy Paz ◽  
Freddy A. Paz ◽  
José Antonio Pow-Sang ◽  
César Collazos
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product

Heuristic evaluation is one of the most used techniques to evaluate the level of usability of a software product. In this research, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the recent studies which report the use of this method in the context of a software development process. The purpose was to identify the specific way in which each author performs this usability evaluation method, in order to propose a formal protocol. After an indeed examination of these studies, we have determined there are several differences in the way this technique is conducted according to the literature. There is no agreement about the number of inspectors that should participate, the usability principles that should be used, the profile of the specialists who must be part of the assessment team, or the evaluation process that should be followed. This work highlights the available settings and a detailed procedure to perform a heuristic evaluation in the domain of software products.  

Obstacles for the Integration of HCI Practices into Software Engineering Development Processes

2006 ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Ferre ◽  
Natalia Juristo ◽  
Ana M. Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Market ◽  
Visible Part ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Development Processes

Usability has become a critical quality factor in software systems, and it has been receiving increasing attention over the last few years in the SE (software engineering) field. HCI techniques aim to increase the usability level of the final software product, but they are applied sparingly in mainstream software development, because there is very little knowledge about their existence and about how they can contribute to the activities already performed in the development process. There is a perception in the software development community that these usability-related techniques are to be applied only for the development of the visible part of the UI (user interface) after the most important part of the software system (the internals) has been designed and implemented. Nevertheless, the different paths taken by HCI and SE regarding software development have recently started to converge. First, we have noted that HCI methods are being described more formally in the direction of SE software process descriptions. Second, usability is becoming an important issue on the SE agenda, since the software products user base is ever increasing and the degree of user computer literacy is decreasing, leading to a greater demand for usability improvements in the software market. However, the convergence of HCI and SE has uncovered the need for an integration of the practices of both disciplines. This integration is a must for the development of highly usable systems. In the next two sections, we will look at how the SE field has viewed usability. Following upon this, we address the existing approaches to integration. We will then detail the pending issues that stand in the way of successful integration efforts, concluding with the presentation of an approach that might be successful in the integration endeavor.

A Survey on Secure Software Development Lifecycles

2014 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
José Fonseca ◽  
Marco Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Software Security ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Secure Software ◽  
Secure Software Development ◽  
Software Development Practices ◽  
Complete Solutions ◽  
The Web

This chapter presents a survey on the most relevant software development practices that are used nowadays to build software products for the web, with security built in. It starts by presenting three of the most relevant Secure Software Development Lifecycles, which are complete solutions that can be adopted by development companies: the CLASP, the Microsoft Secure Development Lifecycle, and the Software Security Touchpoints. However it is not always feasible to change ongoing projects or replace the methodology in place. So, this chapter also discusses other relevant initiatives that can be integrated into existing development practices, which can be used to build and maintain safer software products: the OpenSAMM, the BSIMM, the SAFECode, and the Securosis. The main features of these security development proposals are also compared according to their highlights and the goals of the target software product.

Cloud Enhances Agile Software Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-49
Author(s):  
Saikat Gochhait ◽  
Shariq Aziz Butt ◽  
Tauseef Jamal ◽  
Arshad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Agile Methodology ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Efficient Software

The software industries follow some patterns (i.e., process model to develop any software product). Agile methodology is the most famous and used process model. It is a trend to develop efficient software products with high client satisfaction. In this chapter, the authors discuss agile methodology and its components, benefits, and drawbacks while using the cloud computing in agile software development, existing frameworks for agile-cloud combination, and some security measures.

Cloud Enhances Agile Software Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 491-507
Author(s):  
Saikat Gochhait ◽  
Shariq Aziz Butt ◽  
Tauseef Jamal ◽  
Arshad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Agile Methodology ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Efficient Software

The software industries follow some patterns (i.e., process model to develop any software product). Agile methodology is the most famous and used process model. It is a trend to develop efficient software products with high client satisfaction. In this chapter, the authors discuss agile methodology and its components, benefits, and drawbacks while using the cloud computing in agile software development, existing frameworks for agile-cloud combination, and some security measures.

A Survey on Secure Software Development Lifecycles

2013 ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Fonseca ◽  
Marco Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Software Security ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Secure Software ◽  
Secure Software Development ◽  
Software Development Practices ◽  
Complete Solutions ◽  
The Web

This chapter presents a survey on the most relevant software development practices that are used nowadays to build software products for the web, with security built in. It starts by presenting three of the most relevant Secure Software Development Lifecycles, which are complete solutions that can be adopted by development companies: the CLASP, the Microsoft Secure Development Lifecycle, and the Software Security Touchpoints. However it is not always feasible to change ongoing projects or replace the methodology in place. So, this chapter also discusses other relevant initiatives that can be integrated into existing development practices, which can be used to build and maintain safer software products: the OpenSAMM, the BSIMM, the SAFECode, and the Securosis. The main features of these security development proposals are also compared according to their highlights and the goals of the target software product.

scholarly journals Conclusion: Alternative Theory and Practice of Peacebuilding in Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Yuji Uesugi ◽  
Anna Deekeling ◽  
Sophie Shiori Umeyama ◽  
Lawrence McDonald-Colbert
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
China And Japan

AbstractThe concluding chapter summarises the findings of the previous chapters and presents their common assertions. The goal is to evaluate whether the existent gap between hybrid peacebuilding theory and its practice has been successfully closed. Building upon a complexity-informed framework of hybrid emergence, the mid-space actor typology is developed to link between an analytical framework and practical application. This volume has demonstrated that mid-space actors can provide viable focal points for establishing resilient and self-sufficient social institutions from within without dictating the content of such emergences. The case studies of Cambodia and Mindanao were examined to assess the on-the-ground operation of mid-space actors, and the cases of China and Japan illuminated how the conceptual framework of hybridity could improve contemporary peacebuilding models.

scholarly journals SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: AWARENESS, USE, AND BENEFITS IN CANADIAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FIRMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
DELROY CHEVERS
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Process Improvement ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Software Process Improvement ◽  
Quality Systems ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Develop Software

ABSTRACT Since 1982, the software development community has been concerned with the delivery of quality systems. Software process improvement (SPI) is an initiative to avoid the delivery of low quality systems. However, the awareness and adoption of SPI is low. Thus, this study examines the rate of awareness, use, and benefits of SPI initiatives in Canadian software development firms. Using SPSS as the analytical tool, this study found that 59% of Canadian software development firms are aware of SPI programs and 43% of employees use a form of SPI programs to develop software products. Although the sample size is small and the results cannot be generalized, the sample firms that use SPI programs reported an improvement in software product quality as the greatest benefit. These findings confirm the importance of SPI programs as a means of producing higher-quality software products, which can increase the likelihood of software companies winning global contracts.

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