Merlin Exploitable Solutions for Global Software Engineering
Flyers of produced and validated exploitable solutions:
Adaptation evaluation
Assists in requirement engineering, architecture modeling and adaptability evaluation of the architectural models. Also provides the capability to ensure, even before system implementation,
that the requirements are met. By means of the AEM method, you can increase the life cycle of your software
product and update new features more easily.
CollabTool Report
CollabTools provides a detailed report on currently existing collaboration enabling tools. It gives a detailed overview and analysis of tools for: project management, requirements management, product data management & configuration management, and testing. The CollabTools report describes the requirements for software tools that enable collaborative software development and provides an overview of existing tools based on information from literature and web-pages of vendors/consortiums.
Merlin Handbook
This solution describes an internet-based handbook that provides concrete solutions to support collaborative software development in practice. The handbook covers various modes and describes solutions collected from a large number of experiences from industrial companies and from literature. The handbook provides a checklist to help in ensuring that all important topics of collaboration are taken care off.
Merlin ToolChain
This solution implements an integrated tool environment to support collaborative SW development. The ToolChain provides mechanism to manage resources and tasks efficiently and offers a consistent view of the product artefacts in real-time. Tool chain integrates project management, requirements management, configuration management and testing tools.
ParSEQ
PARSEQ is a method for systematic analysis of candidate requirements from previous releases. By identifying and analysing a set of root causes to suspected incorrect requirements selection decisions, it may be possible to find relevant improvements that are important when trying to increase the specific organisation’s ability to plan successful software releases.
QUPER
QUPER (Quality performance) helps with estimating cost and benefit of non-functional requirements. While functional requirements are scoped in release plans, quality aspects must also be considered in order to balance the market expectations and opportunities with costs of development. QUPER makes road-mapping of quality aspects more explicit. Assessment and prioritisation of quality aspects is supported by a simple and yet comprehensive model based on quality breakpoints and cost barriers.
ReqAnalyst tool
The ReqAnayst tool and methodology helps to identify candidate links between specifications and to reconstruct requirements traceability links through natural language processing using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).
SkyFab
SkyFab is an easy-to-use tool for facilitating your embedded software building and testing process in collaboration. SkyFab’s web interface makes it particularly suited for multi-site development. Skyfab reduces your development costs and time-to-market, as well as enhances the quality of new products. In a multi-site project, it enables colleagues to share equipment, licenses, test scripts, test data and reports.
TM1 Benchmark
TM1 is a database benchmark designed for telecommunication applications. TM1 simulates a typical Home Location Registry (HLR) database used by a mobile carrier. Target of the benchmark test is to measure performance of data managers and hardware/OS/DBMS combinations in predefined setting. TM1 enables any interested party to run the tests and get objective results.
