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  • Supporting Global Software Engineering with Cloud Computing

    Like many disciplines and industries, Global Software Engineering (GSE) practitioners and researchers are also exploring the potential of Cloud Computing for improving the GSD processes and practices. We have been experimentally assessing the viability of providing Tools as a Service (TaaS) to globally distributed software development teams. I have recently presented a tutorial on this…

  • Summer School on Software Engineering in Salerno, Italy

    I have just arrived in Italy to give a tutorial at the 10th anniversary of the International Summer School on Software Engineering that is being organised at the University of Salerno, Italy. The summer school was founded back in 2003 with the aim of providing Ph.D. students and academic and industrial researchers with the latest…

  • Social Structures in Extended Team Model

    Extended Team Model (ETM) is an emerging mode of arrangement for Global Software Development (GSD). As described in one of my previous post, ETM is a customized offshore outsourcing model aimed at building an extended arm of a client by having access to software development resources of a vendor, usually located offshore, by forming a partnership.…

  • Extended Team Model in Global Software Engineering

    Distributed development of software has become a fact of life. Companies adopt different models of Global Software Development (GSD) paradigm based on their needs and the opportunities available to them. Apart from some of the well known models of GSD such as outsourcing, offshore development centers, global sourcing and virtual teams, companies are experimenting with…

  • Building European Software Architecture Community: How Far Have We Come?

    This is the title of an introduction of the guest editors to a special theme of an upcoming journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM). This special theme carries four papers which are an extended and revised versions of the papers published in 4th edition of European Conference of Software Architecture (ECSA 2010) which was…

  • Sharing Experiences from Human-Centric Software Engineering Research

    My current visit of down under (Australia) provided me with several opportunities to visit several colleagues, albeit for short catch meetings, and share our current research directions and  outcomes. My discussions and invited talks mainly focused on our experiences of devising and executing an ambitious agenda of taking an interdisciplinary approach to combining our historical…

  • Twin Peaks Model: Characterising Architecturally Significant Requirements

    Architecture of a software intensive system plays a key role in determining the achievement of architecturally significant requirements (ASR) of that system. If ASRs are wrong, incomplete, inaccurate, or lack details, then a software architecture based on these is also likely to contain errors. However, it has been a general observation, in the literature and practice, that…

  • Leveraging Activity Based Computing and Cloud Computing for Global Software Engineering

    We have been working on exploring the use of activity based computing for guiding the design and development of next generation of tools for supporting software engineering in general and global software engineering in particular. At the same time, we have started work on leveraging cloud computing for the provision of such platforms and tools…

  • Brief on Software Engineering Research for Sustainable Systems

    Recently I gave a presentation on our research and development activities for supporting the sustainability aspects in engineering software intensive systems while leveraging cloud computing and global software engineering. Three key focus of our research are architectural solutions that promote sustainability aspects for cloud-based solutions, processes and practices for sustainable utilization of resources in global…

  • Towards the theoretical foundations of Applying ABC in GSE

    One of my PhD students, Paolo Tell, and I have been working on  exploring the viability of using activity-based computing (ABC) paradigm for designing and developing the next generation of tools for supporting Global Software Engineering. The fundamental assumption of our research on applying ABC for building GSE tools is that a large majority of…