Saiqa Aleem

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed et al.

This study attempts to provide a better understanding of the user dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of user factors on the software game development process and finally on the quality of the resulting game. A quantitative survey was developed and conducted to identify key user dimensions. For this study, a survey was used to test the research model and hypotheses. The main contribution of this paper is to investigate empirically the influence of user key factors on software game development process that ultimately results in a higher quality final product. The results provide evidence that game development organizations must deal with multiple user key factors to remain competitive and handle high pressure in the soft-ware game industry.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

The growth of the software game development industry is enormous and is gaining importance day by day. This growth imposes severe pressure and a number of issues and challenges on the game development community. Game development is a complex process, and one important game development choice is to consider the developer perspective to produce good quality software games by improving the game development process. The objective of this study is to provide a better understanding of the developers dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of key developer factors on the software game development process and eventually on the quality of the resulting game. A quantitative survey was developed and conducted to identify key developer factors for an enhanced game development process. For this study, the developed survey was used to test the research model and hypotheses. The results provide evidence that game development organizations must deal with multiple key factors to remain competitive and to handle high pressure in the software game industry. The main contribution of this paper is to investigate empirically the influence of key developer factors on the game development process.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Software game is a kind of application that is used not only for entertainment, but also for serious purposes that can be applicable to different domains such as education, business, and health care. Although the game development process differs from the traditional software development process because it involves interdisciplinary activities. Software engineering techniques are still important for game development because they can help the developer to achieve maintainability, flexibility, lower effort and cost, and better design. The purpose of this study is to assesses the state of the art research on the game development software engineering process and highlight areas that need further consideration by researchers. In the study, we used a systematic literature review methodology based on well-known digital libraries. The largest number of studies have been reported in the production phase of the game development software engineering process life cycle, followed by the pre-production phase. By contrast, the post-production phase has received much less research activity than the pre-production and production phases. The results of this study suggest that the game development software engineering process has many aspects that need further attention from researchers; that especially includes the postproduction phase.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Game development is an interdisciplinary concept that embraces artistic, software engineering, management, and business disciplines. This research facilitates a better understanding of important dimensions of digital game development methodology. Game development is considered as one of the most complex tasks in software engineering. The increased popularity of digital games, the challenges faced by game development organizations in developing quality games, and high competition in the digital game industry demand a game development maturity assessment. Consequently, this study presents a Digital Game Maturity Model to evaluate the current development methodology in an organization. The framework of this model consists of assessment questionnaires, a performance scale, and a rating method. The main goal of the questionnaires is to collect information about current processes and practices. In general, this research contributes towards formulating a comprehensive and unified strategy for game development maturity evaluation. Two case studies were conducted and their assessment results reported. These demonstrate the level of maturity of current development practices in two organizations.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Recently, information systems like ERP, CRM and WFM record different business events or activities in a log named as event log. Process mining aims at extracting information from event logs to capture business process as it is being executed. Process mining is an important learning task based on captured processes. In order to be competent organizations in the business world; they have to adjust their business process along with the changing environment. Sometimes a change in the business process implies a change into the whole system. Process mining allows for the automated discovery of process models from event logs. Process mining techniques has the ability to support automatically business process (re)design. Typically, these techniques discover a concrete workflow model and all possible processes registered in a given events log. In this paper, detailed comparison among process mining methods used in the business process mining and differences in their approaches have been provided.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Data Warehouse provides storage for huge amounts of historical data from heterogeneous operational sources in the form of multidimensional views, thus supplying sensitive and useful information which help decision-makers to improve the organizations business processes. A data warehouse environment must ensure that data collected and stored in one big repository are not vulnerable. A review of security approaches specifically for data warehouse environment and issues concerning each type of security approach have been provided in this paper.

Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A predictive model is constructed by using machine learning approaches and classified them into defective and non-defective modules. Machine learning techniques help developers to retrieve useful information after the classification and enable them to analyse data from different perspectives. Machine learning techniques are proven to be useful in terms of software bug prediction. This study used public available data sets of software modules and provides comparative performance analysis of different machine learning techniques for software bug prediction. Results showed most of the machine learning methods performed well on software bug datasets.