Software Development Using Scrum

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2012, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2012. The 21 revised full

These two?experienced authors have over seventy combined years of teaching experience, and have learned the best ways to help children learn and grow using their motor development skills.?Now parents

Ernst, a children's librarian focusing on library services and programming for very young children, offers a manual for stimulating literacy development in children ages 12 to 24 months using rhymes,

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds la

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2012, held in Essen, Germany, in March 2

This book contains the extended and revised versions of eight of the ten full papers (out of 58 submissions) presented at the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BM

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this book collects a set of chapters of the multi-disciplinary project "Games, actions and Social software" whic

The volume includes a set of selected papers extended and revised from the 12009 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2009) was held on December 19-20, 2009,

2012 Jolt Award finalist! Pioneering the Future of Software Test Do you need to get it right, too? Then, learn from Google. Legendary testing expert James Whittaker, until recently a Google

Advises on using version control in managing changes in web development projects, covering such topics as creating and working with repositories, setting up repository servers, and using Terminal and

In its 2010 decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined patentable subject matter for business methods and computer software, but did so without imposing definitive tests and defini

Software engineering, is widely recognized as one of today's mostexciting, stimulating, and profitable research areas, with a significant practical impact on the software industry and academia. The LA

What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearanceand audience experience of software enough--or should we look further? In ExpressiveProcessing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin ar

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2011, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, March 26—April 3, 2011,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, held in Pohang, South Korea, in June 2011. The 16 revised full papers were carefully r

Explores the history and development of the Global Positioning System, and discusses the advantages of using electronic maps.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2011, held in Paris, France, in November 2011. The 13 revised ful

Using the analogy of performing on stage, this guide for learning and development professionals, general managers, freelance trainers, consultants, and supervisors explains how to run effective worksh

This is a practical, hands-on book based around a fictitious case study blog, which you will build on a development server using WordPress. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from installing you

Vinod (Fordham U., US) combines his enthusiasm for matrix algebra and for computer software to get the drudgery out of the way. He assumes readers have no experience of the open-source statistics soft

The 2nd edition of this integrated guide explains and lists readily available graphics software tools and their applications, while also serving as a shortcut to graphics theory and programming. It gr

Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building. Compelling case stud

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software, S-Cube 2010, held in Miami, Florida, USA, in Decem

This book presents current methods for dealing with software reliability, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each method. The description of the techniques is intended for a non-expert a

Using the garden as metaphor, The Seeds of Love offers a process for creating mindfulness. Through the development of the practice of mindfulness, and using its tools to maintain a state of awareness

Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its sub-disciplines, such as ecology, over the past decade. The free software program WinBUGS and its open-source sister OpenBugs is currently the onl

Service-oriented computing is a paradigm for developing software addressing key contemporary IT challenges. The result of the SENSORIA project, this book presents a novel and comprehensive approach to

This Three-Volume-Set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems,ICSECS 2011, held in Kuantan, Malaysia, in June 2011.The 1

This Three-Volume-Set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems,ICSECS 2011, held in Kuantan, Malaysia, in June 2011.The 1

Unity brings you ever closer to the "author once, deploy anywhere" dream. With its multiplatform capabilities, you can target desktop, web, mobile devices, and consoles using a single development engi

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2011, held in Edinburgh, UK, on June 20-24, 2011. The revis

SummarySpecification by Example is an emerging practice for creating software based on realistic examples, bridging the communication gap between business stakeholders and the dev teams building the s

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2011, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May/June 2011.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th InternationalConference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2009, held inSofia, Bulgaria, in July 2009. The 19 revised full papers prese

"Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural

Wondering what to do with that interactive whiteboard in the classroom? This book will help teachers master the essentials of SMART Notebook software so they can produce content-rich, interactive less

For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ethics to determine the rights and responsibilities of various stakeholders, the authors find that displaced people must be empowered so as to share equitably in benefits rather than being victimized. They propose a governance model for development projects that would transform conflict over displacement into a more manageable collective bargaining process and would empower displaced people to achieve equitable results. Their book will be valuable for readers in a wide range of fields including ethics, development studies, politics and international relations as well as policy making, project mana

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications, ASEA 2010, held as part of the Future Generation Information Techn

Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform, describes emerging development paradigms and technologies, and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies, covering cloud infrastructure and platform services, programming paradigms such as MapReduce, as well as 'do-it-yourself' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing, including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture, so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a re

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. ICTSS 2010 is the