Die Vision von E-Energy, einem IKT-basierten Energiesystem der Zukunft, bedarf einer sicheren, interoperablen IT-Infrastruktur als Basis. Die Architekturentwicklung von Smart Grids geht mit domänenspezifischen Herausforderungen einher und ist ein Bereich der derzeit in den Anfängen der...

Software testing is time consuming and a costly activity. Effective generation of test cases is necessary in order to perform rigorous testing. There exist various techniques for effective test case generation. These techniques are based on various test adequacy criteria such as statement...

The primary focus of a successful organization is to deliver the high quality product to fulfil the client's needs. In the software industry, quality requirements play a major role for the projects to be successful. Quality requirements are influenced by the users, clients and stakeholders...

Global software development exposes projects to the challenges arising from geo-cultural spread of the team and delegation of project ownership. Therefore, risk management in global software development receives attention from many researchers today. The primary focus in this paper is an...

The current research has two main objectives: 1) Integration of the system analyst's products together with the project manager's work, via handshaking of software tools used for these tasks (Software modeling tools, Project management tools, as well as Word and Excel files). 2) Simulation of...

Over 10 years, the city of Munich migrated 15,000 PCs from Windows to the open source Linux operating system. Based on this case, the authors propose recommendations for evaluating and calculating the risks of open source software adoption