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Reflection Support: Java Reflection Made Easy 反射支持:Java反射变得简单

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2013-12-13 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X20130422001

Z. Shams, S. Edwards

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引用次数: 8

Seminars on Software Maintenance and Evolution: An Empirical Study of the Background Factors Affecting Student Success 软件维护与演化研讨会:影响学生成功背景因素的实证研究

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2013-06-24 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X00903010039

Jussi Koskinen

{"title":"Seminars on Software Maintenance and Evolution: An Empirical Study of the Background Factors Affecting Student Success","authors":"Jussi Koskinen","doi":"10.2174/1874107X00903010039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874107X00903010039","url":null,"abstract":"Software maintenance and evolution (SME) is an important but challenging topic area for university-level computer science education. Seminars can be used to provide students with versatile and up-to-date knowledge on scien- tifically relevant issues. We organized three systematic university-level seminars on SME. In these seminars 127 groups have each been assigned the task of analyzing one scientific SME article. The main results concern background factors re- lating to the students, groups and articles as these affect student success in the seminars. This paper presents a strict statis- tical analysis and a discussion of these factors. Fourteen hypotheses were set and tested regarding the relation of various background factors and a student's success in the seminar. The results indicate a clear relation between some of the factors and success. Most of the student- and group-related factors clearly affected student success, whereas most of the article- related factors did not. The study also revealed many important ancillary results. The results support organizing, studying, and improving feasible seminars in this area.","PeriodicalId":262856,"journal":{"name":"The Open Software Engineering Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131533365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

An Empirical Study of Different Types of Changes in the Eclipse Project Eclipse项目中不同类型变更的实证研究

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2013-05-17 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01307010024

P. Tiwari, Wei Li, Raouf Alomainy, Bingyang Wei

{"title":"An Empirical Study of Different Types of Changes in the Eclipse Project","authors":"P. Tiwari, Wei Li, Raouf Alomainy, Bingyang Wei","doi":"10.2174/1874107X01307010024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874107X01307010024","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studied the distribution of different types of changes in the various contexts of the system and the relationship between artifact (file and module) size and different changes. We used the change data in the open source Eclipse Project through its decade-long evolution history. The latest release has 220 modules, 33904 files, 3780201 lines of code, and 49853 changes (accumulatively). This study focused on two levels of software artifacts: module and file; and four contexts of changes: all changes, error changes, non-error changes, and 19 change categories. At the module level, we found that the power-law distribution was a common phenomenon for three contexts of changes at both the module and file levels: it existed in all changes, in error changes, and in non-error changes. When we analyzed the 19 change categories, the files and modules exhibited different behavior: the power-law distribution existed in all but one category at the module level, but, about two third of the change categories did not show the power-law distribution at the file level. On the relationship between artifact size and changes, we found, at the module level, a few modules that had the majority of changes accounted for the majority of the code size; however, this phenomenon disappeared when we separated the er- ror from non-error changes. At the file level, this phenomenon did not exist at all. We did not find any correlation between artifact size and changes at either the module or file level.","PeriodicalId":262856,"journal":{"name":"The Open Software Engineering Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115659935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Fault-proneness of open source software: Exploring its relations to internal software quality and maintenance process 开源软件的故障倾向:探讨其与内部软件质量和维护过程的关系

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2013-02-22 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01307010001

D. Kozlov, Jussi Koskinen, Markku Sakkinen

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引用次数: 8

Formalizing and Automating Use Case Model Development 形式化和自动化用例模型开发

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2012-08-17 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01206010021

Marinos G. Georgiades, A. Andreou

{"title":"Formalizing and Automating Use Case Model Development","authors":"Marinos G. Georgiades, A. Andreou","doi":"10.2174/1874107X01206010021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874107X01206010021","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an approach that formalizes specific elements and activities of the use case modeling proc- ess in order to overcome problematic issues common to the conventional use case methods, namely the lack of systematic elicitation support in the identification of use case elements, the vagueness introduced by the use of informal natural lan- guage to define use case specifications, and the limited support of dedicated software tools that makes UCDA a time- consuming and error-prone activity. In particular, with the use of our approach, formalization of the stage for identifying the use case elements is achieved with the use of predefined types of use cases and actors, specific guidelines to define as- sociations, relationships and business rules, and formalized sentential patterns. Formalization and clarity of the use case specification is achieved with the use of specific types of actions and guidelines, on one hand, and natural language-based authoring rules, on the other. A dedicated software tool supports the automation of the proposed approach including the automated generation of use case diagrams and specifications. Preliminary empirical evaluation of the proposed approach indicated its effectiveness and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":262856,"journal":{"name":"The Open Software Engineering Journal","volume":"12 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116824300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 13

The Impact of Collaborative Style on the Perception of 2D and 3D Videoconferencing Interfaces 协作风格对2D和3D视频会议界面感知的影响

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2012-06-01 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01206010001

Joerg Hauber, H. Regenbrecht, A. Cockburn, M. Billinghurst

{"title":"The Impact of Collaborative Style on the Perception of 2D and 3D Videoconferencing Interfaces","authors":"Joerg Hauber, H. Regenbrecht, A. Cockburn, M. Billinghurst","doi":"10.2174/1874107X01206010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874107X01206010001","url":null,"abstract":"Video-based collaborative virtual environments (CVE) attempt to emulate face-to-face meetings by immersing remote collaborators in a shared 3D virtual setting. To investigate potential advantages of this novel type of collaborative user interfaces for creating a better sense of social presence and affording a more efficient collaborative process we con- ducted an empirical study in which pairs of users solved a simple task (matching a set of celebrity photos with a set of quotes) using four different media: face-to-face, a standard desktop videoconferencing system (VC), a desktop video- CVE, and a stereo large-screen video-CVE. As expected, results showed that face-to-face provided a significantly stronger sense of social presence than any of the systems, but relatively little differences showed between the systems themselves. However, significant gender effects emerged in an ex-post analysis for the different system types, with females perceiving more social presence when using the standard video conferencing environment and less with the video-CVE conditions, while males showed the opposite effect. Linguistic analysis of audio transcriptions and video analysis further illuminates differences between collaboration styles of males and females across the collaborative conditions. We discuss the implica- tions of our findings for future studies into CVEs and video conferencing systems.","PeriodicalId":262856,"journal":{"name":"The Open Software Engineering Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114283936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

Quantitative framework for managing software life cycle 管理软件生命周期的定量框架

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2011-12-12 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01105010001

A. Stoica, P. Babu, P. Stoica

{"title":"Quantitative framework for managing software life cycle","authors":"A. Stoica, P. Babu, P. Stoica","doi":"10.2174/1874107X01105010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874107X01105010001","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a rigorous and practical way of managing the quantitative yields of new (improved) software engineering methods in the software life cycle. A meaningful set of metrics and models is used to measure the value of applying tailored methods. The value-based framework is proposed as a system of integrated models (such as cost models, productivity models, quality-related models, benefit models, and value-related models) that combine project data and expert opinion. The framework is proactive, as it allows to estimate the value-based metrics of a software engineering method in order to monitor it, improve software quality and convince developers and managers that the method and related investment are worthwhile. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework, the results of a case study are presented and used as an initial validation of the framework. In this paper we use the model system concept to address the problem of quantifying the yields of new (improved) software engineering methods and suggest a value-based framework (VF). VF entails the application of interrelated metrics and models from (3-7) for estimating the relevant costs, the benefits translated into software quality management and improvement, as well as the resulting value-related metrics evaluated during the software system life cycle. The framework is applicable at a high level of abstraction and offers useful results from a practical point of view, as our case study indicates.","PeriodicalId":262856,"journal":{"name":"The Open Software Engineering Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116872104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Studying the impact of global software development characteristics on project goals: a causal model 研究整体软件开发特性对项目目标的影响:一个因果模型

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2010-05-17 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01004020002

Ansgar Lamersdorf, Jürgen Münch

引用次数: 19

Improving Distributed Software Development in Small and Medium Enterprises 改进中小企业分布式软件开发

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2010-05-17 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01004020026

Miguel A. Jiménez, A. Vizcaíno, M. Piattini

引用次数: 12

Analyzing and Evaluating the Main Factors that Challenge Global Software Development 分析和评估挑战全球软件开发的主要因素

The Open Software Engineering Journal Pub Date : 2010-05-17 DOI: 10.2174/1874107X01004020014

Gabriela N. Aranda, A. Vizcaíno, M. Piattini

引用次数: 20