Abstract Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) demands upfront long‐term investment
in (i) designing a common set of core‐assets and (ii) managing variability across the …

Software development processes have evolved according to market needs. Fast changing
conditions that characterize current software markets have favored methods advocating …

Background: Software product lines and Agile methods have been an effective solution for
dealing with the growing complexity of software and handling competitive needs of software …

Software ecosystems is an emerging trend within the software industry, implying a shift from
closed organizations and processes towards open structures, where actors external to the …

In this paper we present a maintainability based model for estimating the costs of develo**
source code in its evolution phase. Our model adopts the concept of entropy in …

Software architects are key assets for successful development projects. However, not much
research has investigated the challenges they face in large-scale distributed projects. So …

Socio-technical ecosystems are living organisms that grow and shrink, that change velocity,
and that split from, or merge with, others. The ecosystems that surround producers of …

Context: Iteration—performing an activity once it has already been done—is unavoidable
and omnipresent during software development. Management of iteration is a challenging …

Test smells are known as bad development practices that reflect poor design and
implementation choices in software tests. Over the last decade, there are few attempts to …

Globalization has influenced the way software is developed today, and many software
organizations have started to actively utilize resources from around the world. However …