This diploma thesis describes the position of software testing according to Lean software development approach and its appliacation in testing team. At first. Lean concept is introduced with its basic principles, then the thesis focuses on the position of testing in the Lean software development itself. At the beginning this thesis deals with agile approach to development and software testing position in Lean software development. This concept defines several principles, which should be followed by testing teams. These principles and its general application in testing teams are subsequently explained. The second part is devoted to Lean software development in a real company. I am working as a tester and I already know the development and testing processes -- that's why one of my goals is to apply this approach to our testing team. Firstly the default situation in our company is introduced. Used technics and types of used testing tools are listed together with procedures and also the disadvantages and troubles, which occurred during the original testing process. Then the following parts are devoted to Lean software development principles application in our testing team followed with description of improvements and advantages delivered by the principles.

This diploma thesis engages with methodologies of managing processes in informatics. This thesis takes into account ITIL, COBIT and ITGPM frameworks considering primarily aspects of setting-up and ensuring SLAs of the services provided by informatics. The author of this thesis has chosen this topic with regards to his profession where as project manager has met typical problems related to the development as well as to the operation of information systems. The goal of this work is to find out what is the approach of each of the considered methodologies to SLAs and their fulfilment. In the second part the thesis is aimed in practical impact of SLAs to the development and operation phases of the service lifecycle. In the first part of the thesis, the given objectives are met on a theoretical level, where is for each of the selected methodological frameworks captured its approach to the issues related to an information service operation, its parameters and their ensuring. Next goal, still on theoretical level, is to find out, whether the individual methodologies (approaches) can be combined together in order to reach the needed quality of a service. In its second part is the thesis aimed on practical analysis of the SLA impact on the development and operational activities. As an example, the author describes necessary adjustments to the processes of both, the provider and the customer of any informatics service, beginning from the initial analytical phases to the live mode of the service. The practical part combines approaches of the given frameworks and adds author's experiences gained in the domain. In the end of the thesis, findings and conclusions resulting from the captured facts are briefly summarized, including the author's opinion and recommendations.

Agile software development methods, characterized by delivering customer value via incremental and iterative time-boxed development processes, have moved into the mainstream of the Information Technology (IT) industry. However, despite a growing body of research which suggests that a predictive manufacturing approach, with big up-front specifications, detailed estimates, and speculative plans applicable to manufacturing domains, is the wrong paradigm for software development, many IT organizations are still hesitant to adopt agile approaches (Larman, 2004). This study extends research based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, & Davis, 2003) into the domain of business processes. Specifically, processes related to the `behavioral intent' to adopt agile software development methods. Further, it investigated relationships between adoption and the impact on project performance attributes. A sample was obtained from a population of IT practitioners from within the IT industry. The sampling frame consisted of members from the global Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) chapters, Agile User Groups, and I.T. industry conference promoters and presenters. Independent variables included performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions, with the dependant variable being behavioral intent to adopt agile software development methods. The independent variable of agile software development adoption and dependent variables of project performance were also included as well as predictive models relating adoption to on-time delivery of project functionality and stakeholder satisfaction. The variables in the study were measured via a 65-item questionnaire based on previous scales, and tested to ensure validity and reliability. The research questions were developed to identify correlations between performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and the behavioral intent to adopt agile software development methods. Additional questions measured the correlation between adoption and key project performance attributes. The research found positive correlations between performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intent to adopt agile software development methods, positive correlations between adoption and on-time delivery of project functionality and stakeholder satisfaction, and weak positive correlations with post delivery defects and project success rates.

This study set out to determine various aspects of the agile approaches to software development. These included an investigation into the principles and practices driving these methodologies; determining the applicability of these approaches to the current software development needs; determining whether these methodologies can comply with software engineering standards (as set out for example by ISO); investigating the feasibility of these approaches for the telecommunication industry; establishing whether practitioners are reaping the benefits that are advertised by agile proponents; and attempting to discover short-comings of the agile paradigm. This dissertation examines the aforementioned issues and tries to provide answers to them. It is argued that: Agile software development is suited to projects where the system evolves over the life cycle of the project. These methodologies are intended to seamlessly handle changing requirements. Thus, using an agile approach might provide a competitive advantage in developing e-business solutions which are tightly coupled with the business strategy and needs. It is shown that agile methodologies can comply with software engineering standards such as ISO 12207:1995 and ISO 15288:2002. Furthermore diligent application of certain agile methodologies may result in a level 3 Capability Maturity Model (CMM) grading. Evidence from the feedback of a case study conducted on an XP project team, supports the view that XP, and agile in general, does indeed live up to its 'promises'. However, some potential problem areas were identified that should be kept in mind when implementing these methodologies. Finally, an in situ investigation suggests that there are a number of projects in the telecommunication industry that will benefit from the agile approach and its practices. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Computer Science / unrestricted

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The purpose of this project is to develop a web-based application called Littlebee that allows customers to do online design of babies' wear. The online designing options include combining appliques with clothing styles and changing fabric colors; it utilizes images pre-stored in the database.

Ubiquitous computing aims to make computing widely available, easy to use, and completely transparent to the user. Umbilical Cord is intended to be the first step in researching ubiquitous computing at CSUSB. It implements a model scalable network with a client-server architecture that features consistent user interaction and global access to user data. It is based on the Linux operating system which can be leveraged for future research due to the open nature of its source code. It also features a scalable network swap.

El presente proyecto sobre un soporte tecnológico al tratamiento de pacientes que sufren fobia social y agorafobia utilizando escenarios de Virtual Reality busca desarrollar una solución efectiva para reducir el tiempo del tratamiento psicológico y que dicha solución sea accesible en términos económicos a los centros psicológicos. El tratamiento de exposición en realidad virtual es una alternativa al tratamiento de exposición en vivo y exposición en imaginación que se le da a los pacientes que sufren fobia social y agorafobia en el Perú. En el proyecto solo se utilizan dispositivos de realidad virtual económicos, que no incurran en altos costos como un HTC VIVE u Oculus Rift. Además, se busca utilizar tecnologías Open Source y un motor de juego que no involucre pagar regalías. Finalmente, para evaluar los beneficios del software desarrollado se harán pruebas con pacientes que tengas estos padecimientos y se realizará una comparativa entre los que tomaron la terapia con el software frente a los que tomaron el tratamiento de exposición en imaginación. / The virtual reality exposure treatments (VRET) are currently being used to provide support for psychological treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy given to patients with fears and phobias. The objective of this document is to determine the feasibility in terms of effectiveness of the use of VRET to treat social phobia and agoraphobia in the treatment of patients who suffer from it. The effectiveness is evaluated based on the comparison of the reduction of anxiety scores with respect to sweating, heart rate, subjective units of anxiety (SUA) and clinical criteria in a period of 6 weeks of treatment with a specialized psychologist who monitors the software on 5 patients with social phobia and another 5 with agoraphobia. / Tesis

abstract: The coordination of developing various complex and large-scale projects using computers has been well established and is the so-called computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Collaborative software development consists of a group of teams working together to achieve a common goal for developing a high-quality, complex, and large-scale software system efficiently, and it requires common processes and communication channels among these teams. The common processes for coordination among software development teams can be handled by similar principles in CSCW. The development of complex and large-scale software becomes complicated due to the involvement of many software development teams. The development of such a software system can be largely improved by effective collaboration among the participating software development teams at both software components and system levels. The efficiency of developing software components depends on trusted coordination among the participating teams for sharing, processing, and managing information on various participating teams, which are often operating in a distributed environment. Participating teams may belong to the same organization or different organizations. Existing approaches to coordination in collaborative software development are based on using a centralized repository to store, process, and retrieve information on participating software development teams during the development. These approaches use a centralized authority, have a single point of failure, and restricted rights to own data and software. In this thesis, the generation of trusted coordination in collaborative software development using blockchain is studied, and an approach to achieving trusted cooperation for collaborative software development using blockchain is presented. The smart contracts are created in the blockchain to encode software specifications and acceptance criteria for the software results generated by participating teams. The blockchain used in the approach is a private blockchain because a private blockchain has the characteristics of providing non-repudiation, privacy, and integrity, which are required in trusted coordination of collaborative software development. This approach is implemented using Hyperledger, an open-source private blockchain. An example to illustrate the approach is also given. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Software Engineering 2020

Goal of this diploma thesis is to design and develop a mobile application for Android OS. Marketing and monetization plans will be defined and realized for propagation and profit. Aim is to create capable, sellable product for quickly expanding market of mobile applications.