Prof Julian Bass' Outputs (116)

Empirical Investigation of Practitioners' Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Salihu, Y. B., Bass, J. M., & Iyawa, G. E. (2024). Empirical Investigation of Practitioners' Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development.

Despite adopting agile practices during large-scale agile software development testing, practitioners developing medical information systems face critical challenges coordinating agile software testing. The lack of collaboration and coordination amon... Read More about Empirical Investigation of Practitioners' Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development.

Factors Amplifying or Inhibiting Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Nainna, M. A., Bass, J. M., & Speakman, L. (2024). Factors Amplifying or Inhibiting Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing.

The increasing frequency of cyberattacks by criminal and state-sponsored actors, has elevated the importance of cyber threat intelligence for organisations. We are interested to understand why practitioner share cyber threat intelligence and the impe... Read More about Factors Amplifying or Inhibiting Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing.

A Novel Practice-Based Process Model for Secure Agile Software Development (2024)
Thesis
Ardo, A. (2024). A Novel Practice-Based Process Model for Secure Agile Software Development. (Thesis). University of Salford

Nigeria is ranked second globally after India in reported incidences of cyberattacks. Attackers usually exploit vulnerabilities in software which may not have considered security features during the development process. Agile methodologies are a well... Read More about A Novel Practice-Based Process Model for Secure Agile Software Development.

Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques (2023)
Thesis
Adewojo, A. (2023). Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques. (Thesis). University of Salford

Cloud computing provides scalable, flexible, and cost-effective computing resources. Cloud adoption has, however, introduced resource utilisation and service unavailability issues during the process of designing, deploying, and hosting cloud-native a... Read More about Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques.

Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory (2023)
Journal Article
Ardo, A. A., A. Ardo, A. A., Bass, J. M., & Gaber, T. (2023). Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 89(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/isd2.12285

Nigeria is ranked second worldwide, after India, in reported incidences of cyberattacks. Attackers usually exploit vulnerabilities in software which may not have adequately considered security features during the development process. Agile methods ha... Read More about Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory.

Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Bolton, T., Bass, J., Gaber, T., & Mansouri, T. (2023). Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts. In Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (186-200). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35320-8_13

The commonly-used method of bolting, used to secure parts of apparatus together, relies on the bolts having a sufficient preload force in order to the ensure mechanical strength. Failing to secure bolted connections to a suitable torque rating can ha... Read More about Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts.

A Data Brokering Architecture to Guarantee Nonfunctional Requirements in IoT Applications (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mansouri, T., Bass, J., Gaber, T., Wright, S., & Scorey, B. (2023). A Data Brokering Architecture to Guarantee Nonfunctional Requirements in IoT Applications. In Big Data Technologies and Applications (75-84). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33614-0_6

IoT sensors capture different aspects of the environmental data and generate high throughput data streams. To harvest potential values from these sensors, a system fulfilling the big data requirements should be designed. In this work, we reviewed the... Read More about A Data Brokering Architecture to Guarantee Nonfunctional Requirements in IoT Applications.

A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications (2023)
Journal Article
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (in press). A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications. SN Computer Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-01702-7

Web applications commonly suffer from flash crowds and resource failure, resulting in performance degradation. Flash crowds are large, sudden, yet legitimate influxes of user requests that constitute a critical problem because of their potential econ... Read More about A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications.

Agile Software Engineering Skills (2023)
Book
Bass, J. M. (2023). Agile Software Engineering Skills. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05469-3

- Covers skills in agile software development methods, team working, version control and continuous integration

- Includes nearly 100 exercises plus hints, tips and further advice for students and early career professionals

- Addresses signi... Read More about Agile Software Engineering Skills.

A comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Bolton, T., Bass, J., & Gaber, T. (2022). A comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20601-6_18

Corrosion - degradation in metal structures - is problematic, expensive to rectify, and can be unpredictable in the rate at which it spreads. Traditional preventative maintenance techniques are complemented by human visual inspection, in turn complem... Read More about A comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection.

Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development (2022)
Thesis
Macarthy, R. Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development. (Thesis). University of Salford

DevOps is described as a software engineering culture and philosophy that utilises cross-functional teams, to build test and release software faster and more reliably through automation. As an emerging concept, its definitions and best practices are... Read More about Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development.

A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications (2022)
Journal Article
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (in press). A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications. CLOSER (Setúbal), 86-96. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011091600003200

Load balancing dynamically optimizes cloud resources and performance, and enhances the performance of
applications deployed on cloud. We have chosen to investigate the class of cloud deployed web-based threetier business applications. There is a pro... Read More about A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications.

Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications (2022)
Journal Article
Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (in press). Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications. CLOSER (Setúbal), 296-304. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011092100003200

Web-based business applications commonly experience user request spikes called flash crowds. Flash crowds
in web applications might result in resource failure and/or performance degradation. To alleviate these challenges, this class of applications... Read More about Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications.

An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity (2022)
Journal Article
Ardo, A., Bass, J., & Gaber, T. (2022). An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity. Lecture notes in business information processing (Internet), 567-581. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95947-0_40

Cybersecurity has been identified as a major challenge confronting the digital world,
neglecting cybersecurity techniques during software design and development increases the risk
of malicious attacks. Thus, there is a need to make security an inte... Read More about An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity.

Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Ardo, A., Bass, J., & Gaber, T. (2022). Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model. In 2022 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). https://doi.org/10.1109/SEAA56994.2022.00031

Agile methods are a well-established paradigm in the software development field. Agile adoption has contributed to improving software quality. However, software products are vulnerable to security challenges and susceptible to cyberattacks. This stud... Read More about Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model.

Managing non‐functional requirements in agile software development (2021)
Journal Article
Rahy, S., & Bass, J. (2022). Managing non‐functional requirements in agile software development. IET Software, 16(1), 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1049/sfw2.12037

Non‐functional requirements define qualities of the software system that ensure effectiveness while embedding any constraints and restrictions on the design. A challenge rises with agile implementation in handling non‐function requirements in regulat... Read More about Managing non‐functional requirements in agile software development.

Agile methodology implementation in Lebanon (2021)
Thesis
Rahy, S. (in press). Agile methodology implementation in Lebanon. (Thesis). University of Salford

Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub fo... Read More about Agile methodology implementation in Lebanon.

An architecture governance approach for Agile development by tailoring the Spotify model (2021)
Journal Article
Salameh, A., & Bass, J. (2021). An architecture governance approach for Agile development by tailoring the Spotify model. AI & society, 37(2), 761-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01240-x

The role of software architecture in large-scale Agile development is important because several teams need to work together to release a single software product while helping to maximise teams’ autonomy. Governing and aligning Agile architecture acro... Read More about An architecture governance approach for Agile development by tailoring the Spotify model.

Overcoming team boundaries in agile software development (2021)
Journal Article
Rahy, S., & Bass, J. (2021). Overcoming team boundaries in agile software development. Journal of international technology and information management, 29(4), Article 2

The usage of agile software development methods is increasing and so is the need for enhancing the collaboration between the different stakeholders. Thus, we chose to investigate the communication tools and challenges across the different boundaries... Read More about Overcoming team boundaries in agile software development.

Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Monaghan, B., & Bass, J. (2020). Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective. Lecture notes in computer science, 12562, 254-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64148-1_16

Organisations that manage legacy systems at scale, such as those found within large government agencies and commercial enterprises, face a set of unique challenges. They manage complex software landscapes that have evolved over decades. Current conce... Read More about Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective.