At the beginning of the new century, Information Technologies had become basic and indispensable constituents of the production and preparation processes for all kinds of goods and services and with that are largely influencing both the working and private life of nearly every citizen. This...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Undergraduate computing students often produce high quality final-year projects with a software product that has the potential to become commercially viable. It is feasible to identify such projects by enterprise-aware academic staff during the projects' development. The...

Empirical research is vital if software engineering technology is to be meaningfully evaluated --- without it only guesses can be made at the competing merits of different approaches. Unfortunately, as this thesis demonstrates, much of existing empirical work contains some kind of weakness...