This study explores the relationship between organizational control modes (behavior, outcome, and clan) and software quality. Much of the previous work on organizational control has examined the choice of modes given task characteristics. This research extends work in control theory by considering the impact of control modes on the increasingly critical organizational outcome of software qualit...

Many institutions are now developing large-scale, complex, coupled multiphysics computational simulations for massively parallel platforms for the simulation of the performance of nuclear weapons and certification of the stockpile, and for research in climate and weather prediction, magnetic and inertial fusion energy, environmental systems, astrophysics, aerodynamic design, combustion, biologi...

A recent industry survey (Townhidnejad and Hilburn, 2002) has reported that more than fifty percent of a software project’s budget is spent on activities related to improving software quality. Industry leaders claim that this is caused by the inadequate attention paid to software quality in the development phase. This paper introduces a static analysis framework which can be used to give beginn...

Software testing is a crucial activity to a successful software project that demands a significant effort. Aiming at improving software quality as well as to reduce the costs of testing process, we developed TaRGeT, a ModelBased Testing (MBT) tool that automatically generates test cases from use case scenarios written in natural language. In this paper we present TaRGeT and show quantitative an...

Software technology and computing resources have evolved and developed considerably over the past years and may be considered as the backbone of many business ventures today. However, the software project management environment has also changed and is continuously evolving. Currently software projects are developed and deployed in distributed, pervasive and collaborative environments. This mean...

The goal of the GOODSTEP project is to enhance and improve the functionality of a fully object-oriented database management system to yield a platform suited to applications such as Software Development Environments (SDEs). The baseline of the project is the O 2 database management system (DBMS). The O 2 DBMS already includes many of the features required by SDEs. The project has identifed enha...

Traditional software development methods have been unable to meet the software implementation quality guarantee with current cross-cutting and a variety of system features. Over the years using complex project, it continuously explore and in-depth study of the CMMI quality system application. The project thoughts are applied to the complicated software development process management and quality...

Risk management is one of the most important phases of project management and isthe most recently used by many researchers. In this paper, a fuzzy based method wasproposed which identifies different kinds of risks through the project life cycle.Then, the project risk magnitude can be obtained in regards to five factors, namely“severity”, “occurrence”, and “not detection” which form fuzzy FMEA a...