Identification of suitable web application development methods for small software firms

Many development methods have been proposed for developing web application in small software firms.However, these methods have some limitations.This paper aims to identify the suitable development methods for building high quality web application.In order to achieve this objective, a comparative study was conducted on several current development methods.Comparisons were made according to five criteria that include fitted to 10-50 size, simplicity, flexible to change, customer collaboration and quality assurance used measurement program(QAMP).The findings of this paper will be used as a baseline for building a new development methodology for small software firms that emphasize on monitoring

Determining Multi-Criteria Supplier Selection towards Sustainable Development of IT Project Outsourcing

Due to competitiveness in the global business, many organizations have sought alternative to improve their businesses and operations by outsourcing projects and this includes Information Technology (IT) projects. Selecting the most suitable IT supplier is important to ensure sustainable development of the projects. Supplier is selected based on a set of criteria used in the decision process. The criteria can be comprised into tangible and intangible criteria. Many studies have attempted to determine the criteria to be used in selecting IT supplier, nevertheless, it has yet to be reported on a standardize set of criteria to be used in IT outsourcing projects. Thus outsourcing decisions are often made under uncertainty and incomplete information which leads to weak decision and high risk of projects failure. Therefore, the study aimed to determine multi-criteria for supplier selection in order to ensure the sustainable development of IT outsourcing projects. The criteria were identified using comprehensive review approach that utilizes searching information related to multi criteria supplier selection in IT outsourcing and successful criteria of IT outsourcing projects. As a result, the identified criteria is proposed as a standardize criteria in selecting supplier for IT outsourcing projects. Such a contribution is hoped to benefit businesses for various IT outsourcing projects

Current Challenges of Requirement Change Management

Nowadays, responding to requirements change in software industry is essential for survival in the competitive market to achieve business objectives. However, it is clearly evident that changing requirements have many problems which causes software failure. This was a great motivation to analyse literature for identifying current challenges of Requirements Change Management (RCM); which in return can improve our ability to make better decisions and resolve changing requirements problems. Major challenges of RCM have been elucidated as reusability, change anticipation, change activity measurement, connectivity with software artifacts and change management automation. Identifying RCM challenges will help to draw a road map for researchers and practioners to find optimal solutions

Agile development methods for developing web application in small software firms

Small software firms that involved with developing web application are lacked of well defined development process. Many development methods have been proposed for developing web application in these firms. However, these methods have some limitations.This paper aims to identify the agile development methods that are suitable for small development teams and determine the enhancements needed to get high quality web application.In order to achieve these objectives a comparative study was conducted on the suitable agile development methods that have been selected. Comparisons were made according to a set of criteria that include development process, project management, requirement, testing and design.The findings of this paper will be used as baseline for building a new measurable web application development methodology for small software firms

GOSSEC: Goal Oriented Software Sustainability Evaluation Criteria

The concepts of sustainability is now aware among the software engineering researchers.  It has direct and indirect impacts on three dimensions which are environment, economic and social that results from the development and implementation of the software. Although there are studies on software sustainability evaluation that defines the software sustainability criteria unfortunately, most of the studies are focusing on single criterion rather than come out with holistic criteria of software sustainability. Additionally, the studies also focused on what need to be measured instead of how to perform the evaluation systematically. This limitation was occurred due to lack of defining the measurement goal of each criteria of software sustainability dimensions. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a Goal Oriented Software Sustainability Evaluation Criteria and organize the sustainability criteria using Quality Function Deployment. On top of that, the Goal Oriented Software Sustainability Evaluation Criteria has been constructed using Goal Oriented Measurement approach by adapting the Goal Question Metric method to assist in defining the goal that clearly defined the purposes, perspectives, and point of views of measurement of software sustainability. Hence, the Goal Oriented Software Sustainability Evaluation Criteria provides nine (9) goals and thirty four (34) sub goals for measuring the software sustainability criteria and sub criteria. The findings from the study present a set of criteria and measurement goals which can be used for evaluating software sustainability. The criteria were organized into three dimensions which are environment, economic and social.   &nbsp

Knowledge sharing on implementing software process quality model evaluation: Focus group approach

The Extended Software Process Assessment and Certification(SPAC) Model is a model that assesses and certifies the effectiveness and efficiency of software process, which focuses on the agile and secured based software development practices. The proposed model was evaluated using focus group approach.This approach is not often used in the software engineering field even though it has various benefits.Therefore, this paper shares the experiences on the implementation of the focus group for model evaluation to reveal its usefulness.The detailed discussion on the steps taken to implement the approach is discussed. Based on the experience, it is found that this approach is very time effective, can be conducted easily and can get more evaluation done at onc

A conceptual service oriented architecture framework for integrated flood management

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a platform and language-independent that guide different services to work together in order to perform business process.The benefits of using SOA such as interoperability, discoverability, loose coupling, flexibility and reliability have led previous researchers to use it as their fundamental basis in designing their software architecture framework.Previous researchers also have exploit SOA and implement it into flood management domain to manage the complex systems that are distributed across the network.However, previous works do not provide the detail process of emergency management into their flood management framework.Therefore, this study aims to propose a conceptual SOA framework for an integrated flood management (IFM) in order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of managing flood.Furthermore the feasibility of using SOA and the required process of flood management in order to construct the conceptual framework are being investigated by means of a comparative study.In addition, this study also suggests the Service oriented architecture Modeling Language (SoaML) as a technique to model the services for anIFM

Agile software development practices that influence software quality: A review

Agile software development (Agile) is being practiced in software industry nowadays as it fits the current business environment which focuses on delivering software to market as quickly as possible. In addition, Agile practitioners claim that it produces software with good quality.Thus, our research aims to identify Agile practices that should be followed in order to produce good quality software. Since many researchers report that the quality of people and process influence the quality of software product, this paper discusses on practices related to these two factors. The identified practices will be used for developing questionnaire in order to investigate current practice among Agile practitioners