Continuous practices, ie, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, are the software
development industry practices that enable organizations to frequently and reliably release …

CONTEXT: Systematic literature review (SLR) has become an important research methodology
in software engineering since the introduction of evidence-based software engineering (…

CONTEXT: Variability management (VM) is one of the most important activities of software
product-line engineering (SPLE), which intends to develop software-intensive systems using …

Agile methods may produce software faster but we also need to know how they meet our
quality requirements. In this paper we compare the waterfall model with agile processes to …

There is a growing interest in applying agile practices in global software development (GSD)
projects. The literature on using Scrum, one of the most popular agile approaches, in …

Contaminated soil containing toxic metals and metalloids is found everywhere globally. As a
consequence of adsorption and precipitation reactions, metals are comparatively immobile …

Software architecture evaluation has been proposed as a means to achieve quality attributes
such as maintainability and reliability in a system. The objective of the evaluation is to …

Many claims have been made about the consequences of not documenting design rationale.
The general perception is that designers and architects usually do not fully understand the …

Recent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is important
and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different approaches …

Context Global Software Development (GSD) presents significant challenges to share and
understand knowledge required for developing software. Organizations are expected to …