Small and medium enterprises are a very important cog in the gears of the world economy. The software industry in most countries is composed of an industrial scheme that is made up mainly of small… (More)
Although software measurement plays an increasingly important role in Software Engineering, there is no consensus yet on many of the concepts and terminology used in this field. Even worse,… (More)
Competisoft provides the Latin American software industry with a reference framework for improvement and certification of its software processes.The project is based on proven solutions, including… (More)
International Journal of Software Engineering and…
2004
Different proposals exist to represent the software maintenance process. However most 15 of them are very informal or too focussed on a specific goal. We have developed a semi-formal ontology where… (More)
Organizations developing software-based systems or services often need to tailor process reference models—including product-oriented and project-oriented processes—to meet both their own… (More)
The quality of business process models is an increasing concern as enterprise-wide modelling initiatives have to rely heavily on non-expert modellers. Quality in this context can be directly related… (More)
The quality of conceptual business process models is highly relevant for the design of corresponding information systems. In particular, a precise measurement of model characteristics can be… (More)
Test driven development (TDD) is gaining interest among practitioners and researchers: it promises to increase the quality of the code. Even if TDD is considered a development practice, it relies on… (More)