Software Technology

Software-driven innovation is the call of the day.

Software and IT usage are continuously growing to keep our society active and manage our individual lives.

Have you ever tried to retrieve that forgotten key code for your suitcase After one year without traveling, many of us found themselves having forgotten the…

There is no software without systems engineering. Software is always part of a bigger system.

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Alice from Alice in Wonderland was told this obvious piece of wisdom when she asked for…

The pandemic interruption has accelerated many necessary technology changes.

Requirements and testing belong together. Historically, testers have often seen the requirements only after the system has already been partially implemented.

Corporate Governance Encompasses the set of rules, processes, and methods aimed at defining and meeting the strategic objectives of an organization.1 These…

Digital Transformation DX has revolutionized entire industries, propelled IT start-ups to stratospheric stock market valuations, and is sustaining legions…

Suppose that you are developing a critical application that handles sensitive data.

Will there be another thriving twenties, as there was in the previous century For more than a decade, companies worldwide have been very successful and in…

Cybercriminals can break into any connected system.

Software start-ups have become increasingly important to the economy and are a key to innovation.

Data science is mandatory in today's business to capitalize on achievements and assets.

Society today depends on autonomous systems, such as intelligent service systems, self-driving trains, and remote surgeries.1 The ultimate…

Enterprise architecture EA allows companies to proactively assess and adjust policies and systems to achieve target business goals that monetize relevant…

Convergence is currently melding entire disciplines to fully new business models and technologies across industries.

Software quality matters-more than ever. Software has become the most crucial infrastructure in this century.

Distributed agile teams traditionally have relied on developing custom interpretations of agile practices as well as on adopting an ever-growing plethora of…

Unlike their authors, software systems tend to live much longer than was ever intended or thought possible.

A survey of software professionals worldwide suggests the past, present, and future challenges of software engineering.

This instalment of the Software Technology department discusses how the digital transformation is affecting software technology and the software…

Microservices are small applications with a single responsibility that can be deployed, scaled, and tested independently.

This article provides an overview of current database-management-system technologies and suppliers, along with a case study of an Internet application.

Although the development and widespread adoption of software bots has occurred in just a few years, bots have taken on many diverse tasks…

Scaling agile allows tailoring and blending agile and lean practices to address actual industry needs for critical systems.

Games can help motivate people in otherwise nongame scenarios and engage users in high interaction.

Software defines the future perhaps more than any other discipline.

The transfer of IT and consumer-electronics technologies to the automotive domain will provide major opportunities.

A survey of software industry professionals revealed trends involving efficiency and cost, security and safety, innovation, the digital…

Computer games are rich, complex, and often large-scale software applications.

Software crowdsourcing is mediated by platforms that connect requesters buyers with online workers--the crowd.

In machine learning, a computer first learns to perform a task by studying a training set of examples.

Knowing about big data's potential for exploiting new business ideas is a key capability for staying successful in the market.

Building on lean and agile practices, DevOps means end-to-end automation in software development and delivery.

Until relatively recently, the tools used to develop Web applications followed a well-established architecture called the LAMP stack.

The Internet of Things IoT is about innovative functionality and better productivity by seamlessly connecting devices.

Surveys of and interviews with software business leaders around the world point to success factors that will advance the software business over the next 30…

For software-related companies to deliver safe products and to cope with emerging product liability risks, significant improvements to technology and…

Monitoring is critical to IT system health and thus to businesses' bottom line.

Recently proposed model repositories aim to support specific needs--for example, collaborative modeling, the ability to use different modeling tools in…

To choose the most appropriate cloud-computing model for your organization, you must analyze your IT infrastructure, usage, and needs.

Software-driven industries are advancing in five dimensions: collaboration, comprehension, connectivity, cloud, and convergence.

Estimating functional software size is the key input for building software models.

Enterprise systems are quickly evolving from monolithic silos to distributed applications with service-oriented flexible usage schemes.

Imagine a widespread manufacturing plant equipped with smart machinery and RFID-enabled technology.

This article gives a short overview of the main characteristics of mutation tools.

Outsourcing to the crowd, or crowdsourcing, has launched extremely successful businesses, such as Linux.

Real-time voice-based machine translation is stimulated by many international teams who want to understand each other syntactically as well as semantically.

Embedded analytics and statistics for big data have emerged as an important topic across industries.

With smartphones being the primary handheld device for more than a billion people, mobile Web apps are a necessity in both technical and commercial fields.

Product line engineering PLE is one of the few industry-ready methods to manage reuse and variability in a defined way and thus bring…

Agent orientation is moving from its origins in computer science into applied automation systems engineering.

Insufficient team collaboration often challenges global software engineering projects.

Testing is a destructive task in which the goal is to find relevant defects as early as possible.

Model-driven engineering bases a wide range of artifacts on metamodels.

The primary sources of project risks and product problems are poor, missing, or changing requirements.

With the pervasiveness of sensors, Internet-enabled devices, mobile phones, Internet applications and services, and wireless communication, a new field of…

Time zone differences are a challenge to global software engineering.

With the emergence of multicore and manycore processors, engineers must design and develop software in drastically new ways to benefit from the…

Model-based testing MBT strives to automatically and systematically generate test cases.

Software systems must continually evolve to meet ever changing needs.

In many projects, testing consumes the single biggest amount of resources of all activities.

Requirements engineering RE tools are increasingly used to ease the RE processes and allow for more systematic and formalized handling…

Estimating size or resources is one of the most important topics in software engineering and IT.

Software development is complex, especially with many interacting people and teams.

With the increasing complexity of systems and the pervasive use of multicore technology, increasing numbers of problems can only be diagnosed via tracing tools.

Eclipse Rich Client Platform RCP is a platform for building and deploying rich client applications.

Software development today is typically a team effort with team members in different geographical places.

An overview of cloud computing helps developers get beyond the hype by characterizing its unique requirements, the ways to implement cloud services, and the…

Web 2.0 has been a buzzword ever since software engineers started connecting different applications and data on the Internet.

Software engineering involves people collaborating to develop better software.

Each decade has its key software technology to advance artificial intelligence, and each technology is highlighted in a novel that sells much better than the…

Web applications tend to continuously evolve and thus need thorough, yet lean and automatic, regression testing.

The Autosar standard represents an emerging approach to unifying virtually all aspects of the development workflow of automotive embedded…

With embedded software becoming increasingly pervasive and critical to our society, developers must ensure that their software…

Usage modeling seeks to provide end users with a usable - that is, effective, efficient, and satisfactory - interactive product.

An area often neglected in software technology is where software meets biology.

To mark IEEE Software's 25th anniversary, Software Technology column editor Christ of Ebert presents a review and road map of major…

Over the past decade, software agents and multiagent systems have grown into a powerful software engineering paradigm.

Lean knowledge management is today implemented mostly through wikis, which let users enter text and other data, such as files, and connect the content…

Improving efficiency is a major driver for increasing workflow automation and data integration, whether in software development or in application domains such…

Effective Web services demand careful synchronization on various abstraction levels.

For decades, model-driven development has been the perfect example of software-engineering hype.

Ruby on Rails is an open source framework developed to increase programmer productivity and reduce entry barriers to programming Web applications.

Asynchronous Web pages, which can change some of their content without reloading the whole page, have gained popularity recently.

"Software technology" will provide concise, hands-on information on hot software technologies early in their life cycle.