Everything about Adaptive software development

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Adaptive software developmentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Adaptive Discretization Using Golden Section to Aid Outlier Detection for Software Development Effort EstimationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Software Adaptation in an Open EnvironmentThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Agile Software Development: Adaptive Systems Principles and Best PracticesCited 90 times
5. Go sideways: Agile software developmentA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Agile learningA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Agile Software Development: Adaptive Systems Principles and Best Practices

  Peter Meso, Radhika Jain · 2006 · Information Systems Management · 90 citations

• Adaptive fuzzy logic-based framework for software development effort prediction

  Moataz A. Ahmed, Moshood Omolade Saliu, Jarallah AlGhamdi · 2005 · Information and Software Technology · 57 citations

• Toward Development of Adaptive Service-Based Software Systems

  Stephen S. Yau, Nong Ye, Hessem S. Sarjoughian · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · 36 citations

• The development and evaluation of a software prototype for computer-adaptive testing

  M. Lilley, T. Barker, C. Britton · 2004 · Computers & Education · 32 citations

• Adaptive plug-and-play components for evolutionary software development

  Mira Mezini, Karl Lieberherr · 1998 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 27 citations

• An adaptive software development process model

  M. Rizwan Jameel Qureshi, S.A. Hussain · 2008 · Advances in Engineering Software · 16 citations

• Proteus: Language and Runtime Support for Self-Adaptive Software Development

  Saeid Barati, Ferenc A. Bartha, Swarnendu Biswas · 2019 · IEEE Software · 13 citations

• EUD-MARS: End-user development of model-driven adaptive robotics software systems

  Pierre A. Akiki, Paul A. Akiki, Arosha K. Bandara · 2020 · Science of Computer Programming · 13 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Adaptive Discretization Using Golden Section to Aid Outlier Detection for Software Development Effort Estimation

  Swarnima Singh Gautam, Vrijendra Singh · 2022 · IEEE Access · 17 citations

• Using Networked Ontologies to Support the Development of Software Systems with Adaptive User Interface

  Alexandre Adler Cunha de Freitas, Simone Dornelas Costa, Murilo Borghardt Scalser · 2023 · Journal on Interactive Systems · 7 citations

• A Federated Adaptive Large Language Model Fine-Tuning Framework for Software Development

  Jianguo Chen, Zeju Cai, Wenqing Chen · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · 3 citations

• Hot Spot and Development Trend of Adaptive Learning in China Based on CiteSpace Software

  · 2023 · Frontiers in Educational Research · 3 citations

• Lithium-Ion Battery Modelling and Adaptive Extended Kalman Filter Implementation for BMS Application Software Development

  · 2023 · International Journal of Renewable Energy Research · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Software Adaptation in an Open EnvironmentYu Zhou, Taolue Chen · 2017
• Adaptive Dynamic And Resilient SystemsNiranjan Suri · 2012
• 📕General business and economic understandingsLouis C. Nanassy · 1968
• Mechanism Design for SustainabilityZongwei Luo · 2013
• Adaptive software developmentJames A. Highsmith · 2000
• 📕Software configuration management in agile methodsJuha Koskela · 2003
• Being Agile Eleven Breakthrough Techniques To Keep You From Waterfalling BackwardLeslie Ekas · 2013
• Software build systemsPeter Smith · 2011

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