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A Reference Framework for Variability Management of Software Product Lines
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Variability management (VM) in software product line engineering (SPLE) is introduced as an abstraction that enables the reuse and customization of assets. VM is a complex task inv…
Institutionalization of Software Product Line: An Empirical Investigation of Key Organizational Factors
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shahbaz Ali Sheikh
A good fit between the person and the organization is essential in a better organizational performance. This is even more crucial in case of institutionalization of a software prod…
User Requirements for Software Game Process; An Empirical Investigation
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed +1
This study attempts to provide a better understanding of the user dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of u…
Updating Weight Values for Function Point Counting
Wei Xia, Danny Ho, Luiz Fernando Capretz +1
While software development productivity has grown rapidly, the weight values assigned to count standard Function Point (FP) created at IBM twenty-five years ago have never been upd…
A Call to Promote Soft Skills in Software Engineering
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
We have been thinking about other aspects of software engineering for many years; the missing link in engineering software is the soft skills set, essential in the software develop…
Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developers Perspective
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
The growth of the software game development industry is enormous and is gaining importance day by day. This growth imposes severe pressure and a number of issues and challenges on…
Game Development Software Engineering Process Life Cycle: A Systematic Review
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Software game is a kind of application that is used not only for entertainment, but also for serious purposes that can be applicable to different domains such as education, busines…
A Digital Game Maturity Model (DGMM)
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces artistic, software engineering, management, and business disciplines. This research facilitates a better understandin…
Soft Sides of Software
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Fahem Ahmed, Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva
Software is a field of rapid changes: the best technology today becomes obsolete in the near future. If we review the graduate attributes of any of the software engineering program…
Managing Support Requests in Open Source Software Project: The Role of Online Forums
Faheem Ahmed, Piers Campbell, Ahmad Jaffar +1
The use of free and open source software is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source softwa…
An Empirical Study of Open Source Software Usability: The Industrial Perspective
Arif Raza, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the use of open source projects by common novice users; Open Source Software (OSS) is thus no longer a reserved arena for software develo…
Maintenance Support in Open Source Software Projects
Arif Raza, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Easy and mostly free access to the internet has resulted in the growing use of open source software (OSS). However, it is a common perception that closed proprietary software is st…
Empirical Investigation of Key Business Factors for Digital Game Performance
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces software engineering, business, management, and artistic disciplines. This research facilitates a better understandin…
What Soft Skills Software Architect Should Have? A Reflection from Software Industry
Faheem Ahmed, Piers Campbell, Azam Beg +1
The job of software architect is considered very crucial in the life cycle of the software development because software architecture has a pivotal role in the success and failure o…
F2- Rules for Qualification of Developing and Managing Software Product Line
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Software product line has emerged as a valuable concept of developing software based on reusable software assets. The concept aims on effective utilization of software assets, redu…
Framework for Version Control & Dependency Link of Components & Products in a Software Product Line
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Software product line deals with the assembly of products from existing core assets commonly known as components and continuous growth in the core assets as we proceed with product…
A Framework for Process Assessment of Software Product Line
Fahem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Software product line has emerged as an attractive phenomenon within organizations dealing with software development process. It involves assembly of products from existing core as…
A Decision Support Tool for Assessing the Maturity of Software Product Line Process
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
The software product line aims at the effective utilization of software assets, reducing the time required to deliver a product, improving the quality, and decreasing the cost of s…
Myths and Realities about Online Forums in Open Source Software Development: An Empirical Study
Faheem Ahmed, Piers Campbell, Ahmad Jaffar +1
The use of free and open source software (OSS) is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source…
An Architecture Process Maturity Model of Software Product Line Engineering
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Software architecture has been a key research area in the software engineering community due to its significant role in creating high quality software. The trend of developing prod…
A Business Maturity Model of Software Product Line Engineering
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz
In the recent past, software product line engineering has become one of the most promising practices in software industry with the potential to substantially increase the software…
Soft Skills and Software Development: A Reflection from the Software Industry
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Salah Bouktif +1
We review the literature relating to soft skills and the software engineering and information systems domain before describing a study based on 650 job advertisements posted on wel…
Business Process Mining Approaches: A Relative Comparison
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Recently, information systems like ERP, CRM and WFM record different business events or activities in a log named as event log. Process mining aims at extracting information from e…
Security Issues in Data Warehouse
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Data Warehouse provides storage for huge amounts of historical data from heterogeneous operational sources in the form of multidimensional views, thus supplying sensitive and usefu…