Configurable software systems adapt to changes in hardware and execution environments, and often exhibit a variety of complex maintenance issues. Many tools exist to aid developers in analysing and maintaining large configurable software systems. Some are standalone applications, while a growing number are becoming part of Integrated Development Environments (IDE) like Eclipse. Reusable tooling frameworks can reduce development time for tools that concentrate on software configuration analysis. This thesis presents C-CLEAR, a common, reusable, and extensible tooling framework for software configuration analysis, where clear separation of concern exists between tooling functionality and definitions that characterise a software system. Special emphasis will be placed on common mechanisms for data abstraction and automatic IDE integration independent of the software system that is being analysed. / Graduate

Title: Critical Success Factors for Integration of Enterprise Resource Planning System   Level: Student thesis, final assignment for Master Degree (one year) in Business Administration   Author: Kambiz Kafi   Supervisor: Dr. Maria Fregidou-Malama   Examiner: Dr. Ehsanul Huda Chowdhury   Date: 2018-11-26   Aim: This study examines the Critical Success Factor (CSF) model and its implementation in a case study where ERP Systems are integrated. The model includes Legacy System as a CSF.   Method: Deductive reasoning and case study were applied to support the research theory. Primary and secondary data were collected. Interviews with managers and staffs were performed.   Result & Conclusions: The study shows the factors that are critical in successful implementation of ERP project and how a successful implementation and integration of ERP projects is executed when two companies are being merged. It also shows how the ERP integration project can be implemented. This work studied an implementation of Holland and Light’s theoretical CSF model empirically and validated that the model is general and robust for successful ERP implementation and managing changes.   Contribution of the research: This study of integration of few Legacy Systems when companies are being merged is a contribution to the theory of CSF. The central role that Legacy Systems plays in ERP project implementation is shown empirically. This study presents Software Alignment (Software Configuration) based on two company’s business processes empirically and found it to be essential in success of ERP projects. The research shows how CSF model manages changes, assisting managers in merging two companies successfully. The research presents a modified Holland and Light CSF model to meet the merging situations.      Suggestions for future research: To gain more knowledge about CSFs for integration of ERPs, this study suggests further cross- industrial empirical studies in wholesale and retail industries with varied sizes. Research about identifying CFSs in extended ERP using e_CRM is recommended.

Orientador: Claudia Bauer Medeiros / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T03:38:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santanche_Andre_D.pdf: 5630081 bytes, checksum: a9ac93609b33f3525c7597c3bbc398b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A Web está evoluindo de um espaço para publicação/consumo de documentos para um ambiente para trabalho colaborativo, onde o conteúdo digital pode viajar e ser replicado, adaptado, decomposto, fundido e transformado. Designamos esta perspectiva por Fluid Web. Esta visão requer uma reformulação geral da abordagem típica orientada a docu­mentos que permeia o gerenciamento de conteúdo na Web. Esta tese apresenta nossa solução para a Fluid Web, que permite nos deslocarmos de uma perspectiva orientada a documentos para outra orientada a conteúdo, onde "conteúdo" pode ser qualquer objeto digital. A solução é baseada em dois eixos: (i) uma unidade auto-descritiva que encap­sula qualquer tipo de artefato de conteúdo - o Componente de Conteúdo Digital (Digital Content Component - DCC); e (ii) uma infraestrutura para a Fluid Web que permite o gerenciamento e distribuição de DCCs na Web, cujo objetivo é dar suporte à colaboração na Web. Concebidos para serem reusados e adaptados, os DCCs encapsulam dados e software usando uma única estrutura, permitindo deste modo composição homogênea e proces­samento de qualquer conteúdo digital, seja este executável ou não. Estas propriedades são exploradas pela nossa infraestrutura para a Fluid Web, que engloba mecanismos de descoberta e de anotação de DCCs em múltiplos níveis, gerenciamento de configurações e controle de versões. Nosso trabalho explora padrões de Web Semântica e ontologias ta­xonômicas, que servem como uma ponte semântica, unificando vocabulários para gerenci­amento de DCCs e facilitando as tarefas de descrição/indexação/descoberta de conteúdo. Os DCCs e sua infraestrura foram implementados e são ilustrados por meio de exemplos práticos, para aplicações científicas. As principais contribuições desta tese são: o modelo de Digital Content Component; o projeto da infraestrutura para a Fluid Web baseada em DCCs, com suporte para armaze­namento baseado em repositórios, compartilhamento, controle de versões e gerenciamento de configurações distribuídas; um algoritmo para a descoberta de conteúdo digital que explora a semântica associada aos DCCs; e a validação prática dos principais conceitos desta pesquisa, com a implementação de protótipos / Abstract: The Web is evolving from a space for publicationj consumption of documents to an en­vironment for collaborative work, where digital content can traveI and be replicated, adapted, decomposed, fusioned and transformed. We call this the Fluid Web perspective. This view requires a thorough revision of the typical document-oriented approach that permeates content management on the Web. This thesis presents our solution for the Fluid Web, which allows moving from the document-oriented to a content-oriented pers­pective, where "content" can be any digital object. The solution is based on two axes: a self-descriptive unit to encapsulate any kind of content artifact - the Digital Content Component (DCC); and a Fluid Web infrastructure that provides management and de­ployment of DCCs through the Web, and whose goal is to support collaboration on the Web. Designed to be reused and adapted, DCCs encapsulate data and software using a single structure, thus allowing homogeneous composition and processing of any digital content, be it executable or noto These properties are exploited by our Fluid Web infrastructure, which supports DCC multilevel annotation and discovery mechanisms, configuration ma­nagement and version controI. Our work extensively explores Semantic Web standards and taxonomic ontologies, which serve as a semantic bridge, unifying DCC management vo­cabularies and improving DCC descriptionjindexingjdiscovery. DCCs and infrastructure have been implemented and are illustrated by means of examples, for scientific applicati­ons. The main contributions of this thesis are: the model of Digital Content Component; the design of the Fluid Web infrastructure based on DCCs, with support for repository­based storage, distributed sharing, version control and configuration management; an algorithm for digital content discovery that explores DCe semantics; and a practical validation of the main concepts in this research through implementation of prototypes / Doutorado / Banco de Dados / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Orientadores: Mario Jino, Jacques Wainer / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T22:10:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_EwertonRodriguesde_M.pdf: 987163 bytes, checksum: e7f810e7d978629a3fdf409175cc29c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho trata de estimação e medição de esforço necessário para aplicação de Gerência de Configuração de Software (GCS) nos projetos de uma organização específica, com os objetivos de: 1) tornar a equipe de GCS capaz de relatar o esforço mensal dos analistas em atividades de GCS, provendo visibilidade da demanda gerada pelos projetos; 2) estimar o esforço necessário para aplicar GCS em novos projetos, permitindo adequar a força de trabalho à nova demanda. A abordagem para medição do esforço consistiu em dois passos: 1) identificação das atividades envolvidas na aplicação de GCS para as quais faz sentido registrar esforço; 2) desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta para facilitar o registro de todas as atividades realizadas pela equipe. Os dados acumulados pela ferramenta foram utilizados para acompanhar, analisar e relatar o esforço mensal de cada analista e para identificar os fatores influenciadores de esforço demandado pelos projetos, permitindo a definição de parâmetros e um método de estimação. Para sistematizar o uso desse método outra ferramenta foi desenvolvida; essa última identifica as características dos novos projetos, sua relação com os fatores influenciadores de esforço e estima o número de horas mensais requeridas na aplicação de GCS, com base em dados de esforço de projetos já finalizados. O método de estimação de esforço foi aplicado em projetos já iniciados, para os quais o consumo mensal de esforço é conhecido e cujos dados não foram considerados na calibração da ferramenta. Os resultados obtidos são satisfatórios e as duas ferramentas são atualmente utilizadas pela organização / Abstract: This work deals with estimation and measurement of the effort necessary to apply Software Configuration Management (SCM) to a particular organization¿s projects, aiming to: make the SCM team able to report the monthly effort of analysts in performing SCM activities, providing visibility of the demand generated by the projects; 2) estimate the effort necessary to apply SCM to new projects, enabling to adequate the work force to the new demand. The approach for effort measurement consisted of two steps: 1) identification of the activities in SCM for which it makes sense to record effort; 2) development of a tool to record all activities performed by SCM team. Data acquired by the tool were used to track, analyze and report the monthly effort of each analyst and to identify the factors which affect the effort required by the projects, enabling definition of parameters and of an estimation method. To systematize this method¿s usage another tool was developed; it identifies the new project¿s characteristics, their relationship with the factors which affect the effort and estimates the number of hours required monthly in the application of SCM, based on finished projects data. The estimation method has been applied to current projects, for which the monthly consumed effort is known and whose data were not used for tool calibration. The obtained results are satisfactory and both tools are currently being used in the organization / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia de Computação

Software prototyping is considered to be one of the most important tools that are used by software engineersnowadays to be able to understand the customer’s requirements, and develop software products that are efficient,reliable, and acceptable economically. Software engineers can choose any of the available prototyping approaches tobe used, based on the software that they intend to develop and how fast they would like to go during the softwaredevelopment. But generally speaking all prototyping approaches are aimed to help the engineers to understand thecustomer’s true needs, examine different software solutions and quality aspect, verification activities…etc, that mightaffect the quality of the software underdevelopment, as well as avoiding any potential development risks.A combination of several prototyping approaches, and brainstorming techniques which have fulfilled the aim of theknowledge extraction approach, have resulted in developing a prototyping approach that the engineers will use todevelop one and only one throwaway prototype to extract more knowledge than expected, in order to improve thequality of the software underdevelopment by spending more time studying it from different points of view.The knowledge extraction approach, then, was applied to the developed prototyping approach in which thedeveloped model was treated as software prototype, in order to gain more knowledge out of it. This activity hasresulted in several points of view, and improvements that were implemented to the developed model and as a resultAgile Prototyping AP, was developed. AP integrated more development approaches to the first developedprototyping model, such as: agile, documentation, software configuration management, and fractional factorialdesign, in which the main aim of developing one, and only one prototype, to help the engineers gaining moreknowledge, and reducing effort, time, and cost of development was accomplished but still developing softwareproducts with satisfying quality is done by developing an evolutionary prototyping and building throwawayprototypes on top of it.

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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) became part of the curriculum in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in September 1997. The intent was to integrate the object-oriented paradigm in the undergraduate courses. Subsequently, this use has shifted to the graduate level. The purpose of this thesis is: 1) to determine what the students know about UML, 2) to reveal if the students were using UML, 3) to clarify how students use the UML.

The complex business applications are increasingly offered as services over the Internet, so-called software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The SAP Netweaver Cloud offers an OSGI-based open platform, which enables multi-tenant SaaS applications to run in the cloud. A multi-tenant SaaS application is designed so that an application instance is used by several customers and their users. As different customers have different requirements for functionality and quality of the application, the application instance must be configurable. Therefore, it must be able to add new configurations into a multi-tenant SaaS application at run-time. In this thesis, we proposed concepts of a configuration management, which are used for managing and creating client configurations of cloud applications. The concepts are implemented in a tool that is based on Eclipse and extended feature models. In addition, we evaluate our concepts and the applicability of the developed solution in the SAP Netwaver Cloud by using a cloud application as a concrete case example.

Introdução – A área de pesquisa de estimativa de esforço de software busca melhorar a acurácia das estimativas de projetos e atividades de software. Objetivo – Este trabalho descreve o desenvolvimento e uso de uma ferramenta web de coleta de dados gerados durante a execução da técnica de estimativa Planning Poker e a análise dos dados coletados para investigação do impacto da revisão de dados históricos de esforço. Método – Foram realizadas estimativas com e sem revisão, em experimentos com alunos de computação da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, coletando os dados relacionados à tomada de decisão em uma ferramenta web. Após isso, foi analisado o impacto causado pelas revisões na acurácia da estimativa de esforço de software utilizando Planning Poker. Resultados Obtidos – Foi analisado o comportamento de 14 grupos de estimativas. Dentre esses times, 8 deles tiveram uma melhora na acurácia maior que 50% das estimativas analisadas. Em 3 deles, a soma das estimativas que tiveram melhora com as estimativas que permaneceram estáveis ultrapassou os 50%. Em apenas 3 deles, as estimativas tiveram redução de acurácia maior que 50%. Conclusões – A Revisão de Atividades Executadas, utilizando Planning Poker, melhorou a estimativa de esforço na maioria dos casos analisados, podendo ser um importante método para aprimorar o processo de desenvolvimento de software. / Abstract – Background – The software effort estimation research area aims to improve the accuracy of this estimation in software projects and activities. Aims – This study describes the development and usage of a web application tocollect data generated from the Planning Poker estimation process and the analysis of the collected data to investigate the impact of revising previous estimates when conducting similar estimates in a Planning Poker context. Method – Software activities were estimated by Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) computer students, using Planning Poker, with and without revising previous similar activities, storing data regarding the decision-making process. And the collected data was used to investigate the impact that revising similar executed activities have in the software effort estimates' accuracy.Obtained Results – The UTFPR computer students were divided into 14 groups. Eight of them showed accuracy increase in more than half of their estimates. Three of them had almost the same accuracy in more than half of their estimates. And only three of them had loss of accuracy in more than half of their estimates. Conclusion – Reviewing the similar executed software activities, when using Planning Poker, led to more accurate software estimates in most cases, and, because of that, can improve the software development process.

Introdução – A área de pesquisa de estimativa de esforço de software busca melhorar a acurácia das estimativas de projetos e atividades de software. Objetivo – Este trabalho descreve o desenvolvimento e uso de uma ferramenta web de coleta de dados gerados durante a execução da técnica de estimativa Planning Poker e a análise dos dados coletados para investigação do impacto da revisão de dados históricos de esforço. Método – Foram realizadas estimativas com e sem revisão, em experimentos com alunos de computação da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, coletando os dados relacionados à tomada de decisão em uma ferramenta web. Após isso, foi analisado o impacto causado pelas revisões na acurácia da estimativa de esforço de software utilizando Planning Poker. Resultados Obtidos – Foi analisado o comportamento de 14 grupos de estimativas. Dentre esses times, 8 deles tiveram uma melhora na acurácia maior que 50% das estimativas analisadas. Em 3 deles, a soma das estimativas que tiveram melhora com as estimativas que permaneceram estáveis ultrapassou os 50%. Em apenas 3 deles, as estimativas tiveram redução de acurácia maior que 50%. Conclusões – A Revisão de Atividades Executadas, utilizando Planning Poker, melhorou a estimativa de esforço na maioria dos casos analisados, podendo ser um importante método para aprimorar o processo de desenvolvimento de software. / Abstract – Background – The software effort estimation research area aims to improve the accuracy of this estimation in software projects and activities. Aims – This study describes the development and usage of a web application tocollect data generated from the Planning Poker estimation process and the analysis of the collected data to investigate the impact of revising previous estimates when conducting similar estimates in a Planning Poker context. Method – Software activities were estimated by Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) computer students, using Planning Poker, with and without revising previous similar activities, storing data regarding the decision-making process. And the collected data was used to investigate the impact that revising similar executed activities have in the software effort estimates' accuracy.Obtained Results – The UTFPR computer students were divided into 14 groups. Eight of them showed accuracy increase in more than half of their estimates. Three of them had almost the same accuracy in more than half of their estimates. And only three of them had loss of accuracy in more than half of their estimates. Conclusion – Reviewing the similar executed software activities, when using Planning Poker, led to more accurate software estimates in most cases, and, because of that, can improve the software development process.