Modeling Software Development Process Complexity

Modern software systems are growing increasingly complex, requiring increased complexity of software and software development process (SDP). Most software complexity measurement approaches focus on software features such as code size, code defects, number of control paths, etc. However, software complexity measurement should not only focus on code features but on features that cover several aspects of SDP in order to have a more complete approach to software complexity. To implement this approach, an extensive literature review for identifying factors that contribute to the complexity of SDP was performed and seventeen complexity factors were identified. As there were indications that the identified factors were not independent from each other but there were interrelations between them, statistical methods for identifying the underlined relations and refining them were applied, resulting to the final set of measures used in the proposed model. Finally, the proposed model has been tested in five software projects and the results were evaluated.

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Practical Experience in Customization for a Software Development Process for Small Companies Based on RUP Process and MSF

Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-906-9.ch003 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 71-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valerio Fernandes del Maschi ◽

Luciano S. Souza ◽

Mauro de Mesquita Spínola ◽

Wilson Vendramel ◽

Ivanir Costa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Software Development ◽

Development Process ◽

Practical Experience ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Small Companies ◽

Engineering Process ◽

Software Projects ◽

Software Engineering Process ◽

Unified Process

The quality in software projects is related the deliveries that are adjusted to the use, and that they take care of to the objectives. In this way, Brazilian organizations of software development, especially the small and medium ones, need to demonstrate to future customers whom an initial understand of the business problem has enough. This chapter has as objective to demonstrate methodology, strategy, main phases and procedures adopted beyond the gotten ones of a small organization of development of software in the implantation of a Customized Software Engineering Process and of a Tool of Support to the Process in the period of 2004 to 2006 on the basis of rational unified process (RUP) and in the Microsoft solutions framework (MSF).

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Software development: do good manners matter?

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1515v1 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Giuseppe Destefanis ◽

Marco Ortu ◽

Steve Counsell ◽

Michele Marchesi ◽

Roberto Tonelli

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Development Process ◽

Communication Process ◽

Software Project ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Key Factors ◽

Software Projects ◽

Complex Process ◽

Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time.

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Software development: do good manners matter?

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1515 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Giuseppe Destefanis ◽

Marco Ortu ◽

Steve Counsell ◽

Michele Marchesi ◽

Roberto Tonelli

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Development Process ◽

Communication Process ◽

Software Project ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Key Factors ◽

Software Projects ◽

Complex Process ◽

Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time.

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Software development: do good manners matter?

PeerJ Computer Science ◽

10.7717/peerj-cs.73 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. e73 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Giuseppe Destefanis ◽

Marco Ortu ◽

Steve Counsell ◽

Stephen Swift ◽

Michele Marchesi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Development Process ◽

Communication Process ◽

Software Project ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Key Factors ◽

Software Projects ◽

Complex Process ◽

Time Required

A successful software project is the result of a complex process involving, above all, people. Developers are the key factors for the success of a software development process, not merely as executors of tasks, but as protagonists and core of the whole development process. This paper investigates social aspects among developers working on software projects developed with the support of Agile tools. We studied 22 open-source software projects developed using the Agile board of the JIRA repository. All comments committed by developers involved in the projects were analyzed and we explored whether the politeness of comments affected the number of developers involved and the time required to fix any given issue. Our results showed that the level of politeness in the communication process among developers does have an effect on the time required to fix issues and, in the majority of the analysed projects, it had a positive correlation with attractiveness of the project to both active and potential developers. The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue.

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The importance of human-computer interaction in the development process of software projects

Global Journal of Information Technology Emerging Technologies ◽

10.18844/gjit.v0i0.114 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. Hanefi Calp ◽

M. Ali Akcayol

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Software Development ◽

Human Computer Interaction ◽

Development Process ◽

Design Methods ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Software Life Cycle ◽

Software Projects ◽

User Friendly ◽

Computer Interaction

<p>Today, software industry has a rapid growth. In order to resist the competition increased by this growth, software projects ne0ed to be developed with higher quality and especially user friendly. Therefore, the importance of human-computer interaction emerges clearly. In design and development phases of software projects, the properties of human –which is an important agent for interaction- such as behavioral, cognitive, perceptive, efficiency and physical factors have to be considered. This study aims to express the importance of developing softwares by taking into consideration the human-computer interaction applications. In this context, firstly a wide literature review is made to examine software development process and human-computer interaction in detail, the results obtained by using design methods in this process are explicated and the importance of said interaction is openly expressed with the exemplary applications in the literature. According to the results of the research, especially in software life cycle, it is observed that rules of interaction must be implemented before software development, however, these methods are usually included in software life cycle in the latter stages of software development process. This situation causes the developed softwares to be user unfriendly and of low quality. Furthermore, it is observed that when the design methods used in the scope of human-computer interaction are integrated into software development process during the life cycle, the developed projects are more successful, have better quality and are more user friendly.</p><p> Keywords: Human-computer interaction, software projects, life cycle, software design.</p>

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A Novel Team Productivity Model for XP Teams

Journal of Cases on Information Technology ◽

10.4018/jcit.2018100106 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 93-109

Author(s):

Farzaneh Tavakoli ◽

Taghi Javdani Gandomani

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Development Process ◽

Unified Model ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Competitive Industry ◽

Development Teams ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Software Development Teams ◽

Team Productivity

Team productivity is one of the issues that always been considered in the software development teams. In software development process, as a team-oriented process, team productivity is a serious issue in software competitive industry that always gets high attention. Several studies have been conducted on various aspects of team productivity, but because of role of employed methodologies, providing a unified model in this regard is not possible. This article is specifically aimed to focus on team productivity in XP methodology and provide a productivity model dedicated for this method. The proposed model is developed based on the most influential features affecting team productivity. This model evaluated and gained enough acceptance. The article also shows the most effective XP practices that positively impact team productivity in XP projects.

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Object-Oriented Software Metrics

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch379 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 2150-2155

Author(s):

Jana Polgar

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Software Metrics ◽

Development Process ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Software Measurement ◽

Software Projects ◽

Critical View ◽

Code Complexity

Software measurement is considered to be an efficient means to monitor the quality of software projects, predict cost of maintenance, assess reusability of components, provide prediction of faults in similar projects, and contribute to improvement of the software development process. This chapter surveys software metrics literature with particular focus on object-oriented metrics, and metrics for measuring code complexity. Furthermore, we provide a critical view of software metrics and their usability.

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