SAS® programmers working on clinical reporting projects are often under constant pressure of meeting tight timelines, producing best quality SAS® code and of meeting needs of customers. As per regulatory guidelines, a typical clinical report or dataset generation using SAS® software is considered as software development. Moreover, since statistical reporting and clinical programming is a part o...

Quite a lot of attention has been paid in the literature on “how to adopt” software process improvement (SPI) in Small and Medium Size (SME) software organization in several countries. This has resulted in limited improvements to the software industry and impacted the Saudi’s economy. However, the SPI adoption is one of the major issues in the domain of small and medium size software organizati...

From a technical point of view, frameworks appear to be a promising means to provide the industry with business management software quickly and in a cost effective manner. Nevertheless, apart from IBM’s San Francisco Framework, there are not really many initiatives by the software industry to develop application frameworks to compete with established standard business software vendors. When ana...

iv 1 Background and Assumptions 1 1.1 The Importance and Challenges of Software Assurance Measurement 1 1.2 Why Security Is a Concern 1 1.3 Purpose of This Report 3 1.4 Intended Audience 3 1.5 Scope 4 1.6 Constraints 5 2 Definition of Terms 6 2.1 What Is Software Assurance? 6 2.2 What Is Software Assurance Measurement? 6 2.3 Measurement Domains 7 2.4 Critical Programming Errors 8 3 Measurement ...

IEEE Std 610.12-1990, IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology, identifies terms currently in use in the field of Software Engineering. Standard definitions for those terms are established.

Development of software is a scientific and economic problem, particularly the design of complex systems whichrequire evolving methods and approaches. Agent technology is currently one of the most active and vibrant areas of IT research and development. Object-oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) has become an active area of research in recent years. In this paper, we review the framework of so...

Rapid and precise effort estimation of software development projects is crucial in IT industry. In a case study, the Use Case Point (UCP) method was applied to 15 commercial software development projects. The estimated efforts were compared with the incurred project efforts. We measured a standard deviation of 42 %. This is not acceptable for industrial usage. Therefore, we propose appropriate ...

Software connguration management (SCM or CM) is a key element of any software development project. A software engineering environment should not only provide support for software products and software processes in general, but also pay attention to high level software engineering concepts like connguration management. In this paper, we present an overview of our approach to software engineering...