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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Software Quality"”.
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Predicting maintainability with software quality metrics
Maintenance of software makes up a large fraction of the time and money spent in the software life cycle. By reducing the need for maintenance these costs can also be reduced. Predicting where maintenance is likely to occur can, help to reduce maintenance by prevention. This thesis details a study …
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A reliability model incorporating software quality metrics
Large scale software development efforts in the past decade have posed a problem in terms of the reliability of the software. The size and complexity of software that is being developed is growing rapidly and integrating diverse pieces of software in the operational environment also poses severe …
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Software quality and governance in agile software development
Looking at software engineering from a historical perspective, we can see how software development methodologies have evolved over the past 50 years. Using the right software development methodology with the right settings has always been a challenge. Therefore, there has always been a need for …
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Improving software quality using an ontology-based approach
Ensuring quality in software development is a challenging process. The concepts of anti-pattern and bad code smells utilize the knowledge of reoccurring problems to improve the quality of current and future software development. Anti-patterns describe recurring bad design solutions while bad code …
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Improving software quality using design thinking with scrum
… com o Scrum para a melhoria da qualidade do software. As metodologias associadas colaboram para aumentar a velocidade dos backlogs ao cliente-utilizador na fase inicial de um projeto de desenvolvimento de software. A metodologia de pesquisa é o estudo de caso por meio de entrevistas e …
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Ikriya: Simulating Software Quality Enhancement With Selected Replacement Policies
<p>The quality of information systems in any organization helps to determine the<br />efficiency of the organization. Many organizations maintain a custom software portfolio, whose quality is important to the organization. Management would like to optimize the portfolio’s quality. Decisions about …
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Software quality model for the evaluation of semantic technologies
In order to obtain high-quality software products, the specification and evaluation of quality during the software development process is of crucial importance. One important component in software evaluation is the software quality model, since it provides the basis for software evaluation and …
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A Coupling-Complexity Metric Suite for Predicting Software Quality
… Complexity have long been used to measure software quality and predict maintainability and reliability of software systems prior to release. In particular, Coupling Between Objects has been shown to correlate with fault-proneness and maintainability of a system at the class level. We …
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Digital Educational Games: Methodologies for Development and Software Quality
Development of a game in the form of software for game-based learning poses significant technical challenges for educators, researchers, game designers, and software engineers. The game development consists of a set of complex processes requiring multi-faceted knowledge in multiple disciplines such …
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A Life Cycle Software Quality Model Using Bayesian Belief Networks
Software practitioners lack a consistent approach to assessing and predicting quality within their products. This research proposes a software quality model that accounts for the influences of development team skill/experience, process maturity, and problem complexity throughout the software …
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An ontological approach to model software quality assurance knowledge domain
Software Quality Assurance (SQA) becomes one of the most important objectives of software development and maintenance activities and as a result within an area of Software Engineering (SE) there are developed standards related to the SQA. Despite the effort made to improve consistency and coherency …
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Contribution to the automation of software quality control of web applications
… applications development is a hot topic in the Software Engineering domain. In this context, the software quality is a key concept since it determines the degree in which a system meets its requirements and meets the expectations of its customers and/or users. Quality control (also known as …
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Study of metrics and practices for improving object oriented software quality
Modern software systems are large and complex products, consisting in thousands lines of code, developed, often in a distributed environment, by dozens of developers and produced through an industrial process, usu- ally with short time to market. To manage such kind of complexity and to keep the …
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Application of software quality metrics to a relational data base system
It is well known that the cost of large-scale software systems has become unacceptably high. Software metrics by giving a quantitative view of software and its development would prove invaluable to both software designers and project managers. Although several software quality metrics have been …
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An empirical study on software quality : developer perception of quality, metrics, and visualizations
Software tends to decline in quality over time, causing development and maintenance costs to rise. However, by measuring, tracking, and controlling quality during the lifetime of a software product, its technical debt can be held in check, reducing total cost of ownership. The measurement of …
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Assessing software quality in Ada based products with the objectives, principles, attributes framework
… the validation of a procedure for assessing the quality of an Ada-based product. Starting with the identification of crucial Ada constructs, this thesis outlines a seven step process for defining metrics that support software quality assessment within a framework based on linkages among software …
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Software quality assurance in Scrum the need for concrete guidance on SQA strategies in meeting user expectations
… concerns of project stakeholders in relation to Software Quality Assurance (SQA) in a Scrum environment. Guided by the tenets of Classic Grounded Theory Methodology, this exploratory and inductive case study presents a broad range of SQA concepts related to the main concern of “Meeting User …
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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS' ATTRACTIVENESS, ACTIVENESS, AND EFFICIENCY AS A PATH TO SOFTWARE QUALITY: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AND CAUSES
<p>An organizational strategy to develop software has appeared in the market. Organizations release software source code open and hope to attract volunteers to improve their software, forming what we call an open source project. Examples of organizations that have used this strategy include IBM …
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