In mate choice copying, a male is more likely to be chosen by other females simply by being observed mating. A recent finding is that women are influenced in their assessments of men by the phenotypic quality of males’ sexual partners. We recently proposed that the term ‘mate quality bias’ should be used to differentiate this phenomenon from ‘mate choice copying’. Here, under the guise of a dat...

For models used in model-based testing, the evaluation of their testability is an important issue. Existing approaches lack some relevant aspects for a systematic and comprehensive evaluation. Either they do (1) not consider the context of software models, (2) not offer a systematic process for selecting and developing right measurements, (3) not define a consistent and common quality understan...

Given that usability is one of the most important aspects of software quality, several methods have been developed in order to establish techniques capable of evaluating this attribute from early phases of the software development process. However, the choice of the most appropriate method for a particular scenario is still a difficult decision, due to the existence of a vast number of approach...

The Software Improvement Group (SIG) offers specialized services that helps companies gaining insight in their legacy code bases. To this end, the internal design structure of a code base is captured by the SIG in a so called source model. A source model can be used, for example, to estimate the amount of work needed for future modifications or to report on various software metrics of the code ...

Business to consumer m-commerce services are here to stay. Their specifics, as software artifacts, indicate that they are primarily and most importantly user-driven; as such user perceived quality assessment should be an integral part of their design process. Mobile design processes still lack a formal and systematic quality control method. This paper explores m-commerce quality attributes usin...

This study proposes quality measurement attributes for Application Service Quality Indicator (ASQI) to measure the quality of application software in the operation stage using the KJ technique and by reviewing some existing methodologies, such as ISO 25000 quality standard, BSC, EA PRM, SERVQUAL, and SLA. As during operational stages software quality is defined variedly in terms of software, ma...

Changeability has a direct relation to software maintainability and has a major role in providing high quality maintainable and trustworthy software. The concept of Changeability is a major factor when we design and develop software and its constituents. Developing programs and its constituent components with good changeability continually improves and simplifies test operations and maintenance...

Previous research has shown that acyclic dependency models, if they exist, can be extracted from software quality standards and that these models can be used to assess software safety and product quality. In the case of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, the extracted dependency model can be used in a probabilistic Bayesian network context for COTS software evaluation. Furthermore, while...