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The service-oriented software engineering approach has been increasingly utilized to design and develop complex distributed systems. Exploiting semantic web technologies to increase utilization of the web services at the semantic level leads to create semantic web services (SWSs). This paper proposes a model-driven architecture (MDA) to model the SWS and to transform it from a high-level modeling language

Logging is an integral part of software development. Software practitioners often face issues in software logging, and they post these issues on Q&A websites to take suggestions from the experts. In this study, we perform a three-level empirical analysis of logging questions posted on six popular technical Q&A websites, namely, Stack Overflow (SO), Serverfault (SF), Superuser (SU), Database Administrators

The construction phase effort prediction is needed for assigning resources to teams of practitioners destined specifically to this phase of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Construction effort (CE) has been reported between 27.5% and 58% of the total SDLC effort causing the uncertainty of taking these percentages as reference. A support vector regression (SVR) training involves quadratic

Software defect prediction, which can identify the defect-prone modules, is an effective technology to ensure the quality of software products. Due to the importance in software maintenance, many learning-based software defect prediction models are presented in recent years. Actually, the defects usually occupy a very small proportions in software source codes; thus, the imbalanced distributions between

Crowdsourcing is simply the outsourcing of different tasks or work to a diverse group of individuals in an open call for the purpose of utilizing human intelligence. Crowdsourcing nowadays used to support and enhance software engineering in different aspects. In this proposed study, a systematic literature review was conducted for the last 10 years from 2010 to 2019. During the filtering process

Usage of agile methods for software development has increased in recent times. Rapid delivery of software products is ensured by these methods with less expense and high user gratification. Application of these methods on a large scale causes many De-Motivators or challenges as initially these methods were aimed at those developmental teams that worked on small scale. However, no effort has been made

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are often used for benchmarking software projects, and traditional DEA models only allow for the use of continuous variables. This study considers the use of DEA for datasets with mixed continuous and discrete variables to ranking software projects. It uses the existing radial DEA model and extends the nonradial DEA model to allow for the use of mixed variables

A recent survey using industrial projects has shown that providing an estimate of the lifetime of pull requests to developers helps to speed up their conclusion. Previous work has explored pull request lifetime prediction in open-source projects using regression techniques but with a broad margin of error. The first objective of our work was to reduce the average error rate of the prediction obtained

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Internet of Health Things (IoHT) is an extension of the Internet of Things (IoT), which plays an important role in the observation, consultation, monitoring, and treatment process of remote exchange data processes in healthcare. The integration, computation, and interoperability are facilitated through various sensors, controllers, and actuators. Security is considered as one of the important factors

Software projects usually receive a large number of submitted bug reports every day. Manually triaging the bug reports is often time‐consuming and error‐prone; thus, it is necessary to automatically assign the bug reports to the suitable developers for bug repair, with the help of bug tracking systems. Aiming to reducing the time consumption and mismatch of bug report assignments, we present a developer

Much has changed since the inaugural ICGSE conference in 2006. Tools have improved, awareness of cultural differences is widespread, and developments such as the foregrounding of open source have all enhanced our ability to work across geographic divides. But the pervasive and profound impact of software in the world—especially for societal scale systems such as social media—forces new and deeply challenging

The increased need for constant connectivity and complete automation of existing systems fuels the popularity of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) worldwide. Increasingly more, these systems are subjected to cyber attacks. In recent years, many major cyber‐attack incidents on CPS have been recorded and, in turn, have been raising concerns in their users' minds. Unlike in traditional IT systems, the complex

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Safety critical systems, such as medical, automotive, and avionics systems, play an important role in our daily lives. Increasing demand for new technologies in these safety critical systems requires rapid adoption of commercial hardware and software. However, the adoption of new hardware and software increases life‐threatening vulnerabilities. To aid in the reduction of these vulnerabilities and system

Designing safety‐critical software in domains ensuring essential services like transportation, energy, or health requires high assurance techniques and compliance with domain specific standards. As a result of the global interconnectivity and the evolution toward cyber‐physical systems, the increasing exposure to cyber threats calls for the adoption of cyber security standards and frameworks. Although

Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPSs) differ from traditional Information Technology (IT) systems in such a way that they interact with the physical environment, i.e., they can monitor and manipulate real objects and processes. For this special issue, the authors of the best papers of IWCFS 2019 were invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers. Additionally, we received eight submissions from

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A large volume of highly diverse and real‐time data provided by social network sites has revolutionized several data analytical sciences such as stock exchange fluctuation prediction, sentiment analysis, and political affiliations prediction. From a software engineering viewpoint, social network sites have produced an unprecedented opportunity for software development organizations to monitor the opinion

Continuous improvement of agile software processes is inevitable in order to reach sustainable and high‐quality project outcomes. In this sense, organizations need guidance on how to apply agile software process improvement effectively; comprehensive approaches with in‐depth analysis and guidelines are required to keep software processes in balance and to continuously improve them, as in a typical

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In this paper, we provide a non‐Markovian Stochastic Petri Net (SPN) model for DevOps workflow specification, and we determine how business processes are carried out. After describing our model semantics, we show how general properties related to liveness and safety can be checked. After that, we provide several extensions on SPNs (SPN) the notation and expressivity to check some specific properties

Textual documentations are frequently used in the software development process to outline features and behaviors of an application. For some people, textual descriptions may not be enough to understand what is being developed. In this scenario, multimedia resources appear as an option for software documentation, providing other ways to observe and interpret information.

Hardly any software development process is used as prescribed by authors or standards. Regardless of company size or industry sector, a majority of project teams and companies use hybrid development methods (short: hybrid methods) that combine different development methods and practices. Even though such hybrid methods are highly individualized, a common understanding of how to systematically construct

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DevOps is a new software engineering paradigm adopted by various software organizations to develop the quality software within time and budget. The implementation of DevOps practices is critical, and there are no guidelines to assess and improve the DevOps activities in software organizations. Hence, there is a need to develop a readiness model for DevOps (RMDevOps) with an aim to assist the practitioners

During the past decades, many studies have been carried out in an attempt to build accurate software development effort estimation techniques. However, none of the techniques proposed has proven to be successful at predicting software effort in all circumstances. Among these techniques, analogy‐based estimation has gained significant popularity within software engineering community because of its outstanding

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The volume at hand presents the special issue of the 12th International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) 2019, which was held in Montreal, Canada, from May 25 to 26, 2019. ICSSP 2019 is the latest in a series of conferences that have been organized by the International Software and Systems Process Association. In our evolving landscape, many companies are making efforts to move towards

In the effort to develop critical cyber‐physical systems, it is tempting to extend existing computing formalisms to include continuous behaviour. This may happen in a way that neglects elements necessary for correctly expressing continuous properties of the mathematics and correct physical properties of the real‐world physical system. A simple language is taken to illustrate these possibilities. Issues

In the context of digital transformation, companies are increasingly forced to develop, manage and continually align IT and business. Companies have found in Enterprise Architecture (EA) a valuable tool to represent and manage IT and business in a holistic way by establishing connections among technology concerns and business/strategical/motivational ones. EA modelling is one of the most critical tasks

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This volume comprises a selected set of high‐quality and extended articles of the 26th Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI) Conference, held during September 18–20, 2019 in Edinburgh, UK. Conferences were held in Dublin (Ireland) in 1994, in Vienna (Austria) in 1995, in Brighton (UK) in 1996, in Budapest (Hungary) in 1997, in Gothenburg (Sweden) in 1998, in Pori (Finland) in

Due to the pervasive use of online forums and social media, users' feedback are more accessible today and can be used within a requirements engineering context. However, such information is often fragmented, with multiple perspectives from multiple parties involved during on‐going interactions. In this paper, the authors propose a Crowd‐based Requirements Engineering approach by Argumentation (CrowdRE‐Arg)