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 software replacement or enhancement are made based on organizational needs and priorities. The development resources allocated help in determining the quality of new software, and should be put to optimal use. Enhancing existing software might sound cheap and easy but it is not always efficient. This thesis proposes a simulation model - iKriya - for this problem. It explores the consequences of various development and maintenance policies which might be applied.These depend on the state of existing software portfolio, the queue and properties of proposed projects, and the resources available. Optimal decisions are made by the simulator by taking the above mentioned factors into consideration.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Computer Science

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Murthy, Sindhu Dharani

Contributors dc:contributor

• David W. Erbach (Director), Qi Li, Rong Yang

• Computer Software
• Software Measurement
• Software Metrics
• Information Technology
• Management Information Systems
• Computer Sciences
• Databases and Information Systems
• Software Engineering
• Systems Architecture

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1247

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2250