This is an inquiry into the “actionable credibility” of information values in informing and how it depends on indirect attributes of information quality. Empirical survey-based research by Wang and Strong (1996) ignores the multidimensional aspects of credibility. Studies that ignore them may produce unreliable results. Most publications discuss quality attributes as independent factors. This p...

Quality attributes and constraints are among the main drivers of architectural decision making. The quality attributes are improved or damaged by the architectural decisions, while restrictions directly include or exclude parts of the architecture (for example, the logical components or technologies). We can determine the impact of a decision of architecture in software quality, or which parts ...

Quality in software engineering, especially mobile application (mobile app, hereafter) development has been one of the challenges in development teams. As the using of mobile applications has been more popular nowadays, lack of attention to the quality attributes lead many customers to dissatisfaction. The main issue is that most attempts made to define software quality frameworks have led to t...

Reliability is one of the most relevant software quality attributes. A common way to analyze software reliability is the use of software reliability growth models (SRGM). There is a variety of SRGMs that have been proposed across years, which aim at providing estimates of reliability at a given time, as well as predictions of reliability that will be achieved with the advancement of testing. On...

Robotic software frameworks have critical impact on development effort and quality of robot control systems. This paper provides a condensed overview on the complex topic of robotic framework design. Important areas of design are discussed – together with design principles applied in state-of-the-art solutions. They are related to software quality attributes with a brief discussion on their imp...

Today’s managers are required to make decisions in a techno-complex rapid decision-making environment. This environment is data and information based which requires that managers have tools based on data and information quality (DIQ) to supplement their decision-making activities. The researchers propose a decision support paradigm based on Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) that employs a D...

There is ample evidence that our current fiber-based marketing system is inadequate in predicting some of the most important features of alfalfa and other hay products. Worse, our current system has the potential for abuses. Seven of these abuses are described here. One key misuse is the over-emphasis of small differences in fiber concentration (as translated to TDN or RFV), while ignoring impo...

The preferences of children and adults were compared with respect to each of the following color image quality attributes: image brightness, saturation, sharpness, color balance (+M/+G), hue rotation, and contrast. It was found that the children had no strong preferences for sharpness or contrast. There was no statistical evidence that they disagreed with adults as to the optimal level of brigh...

Software quality is the degree to which software possesses a desired combination of attributes (e.g., reliability, interoperability). In this paper we describe a few principles for analyzing a software architecture to determine if it exhibits certain quality attributes. We show how analysis techniques indigenous to the various quality attribute communities can provide a foundation for performin...

Refactoring to patterns allows software designers to safely move their designs towards specific design patterns by applying multiple low-level refactorings. There are many different refactoring to pattern techniques, each with a particular purpose and a varying effect on software quality attributes. Thus far, software designers do not have a clear means to choose refactoring to pattern techniqu...