This paper presents a framework that draws on Structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged softw...
This paper describes an initiative to improve software acquisition process in Brazil. This initiative was conducted in the context of the MPS.BR Program, a nationwide effort to de...
Kival Chaves Weber, Eratostenes Edson Ramalho de A...
Abstract. Answering “macro-process” research issues – which require understanding how development processes fit or do not fit in different organizational systems and environm...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that lets a component developer provide a component user with different kinds of information, depending on the specific context and needs....
Alessandro Orso, Mary Jean Harrold, David S. Rosen...
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising approach for coordinating concurrent threads, for which many implementation strategies are currently being researched. Although ...