The software productivity is an important key of software quality factors. The productivity measure has become a tool for managers since it is used to compare the performance between different companies (benchmarking) and to compare the efficiency of different developers in the same company. Therefore, it allows doing strategic planning and decision making based on such measurement. A variety o...

Web service monitoring tools have become an essential component for Service Level Agreement (SLA) because they can collect real quality values of quality attributes to estimate the quality level of services. Since users monitor more than one quality attribute at the same time, quality levels are prone to vary during monitoring time, producing a conflict among quality attributes. In this study, ...

Attributes and methods are the basic contents of an object-oriented class. The connectivity among these class members and the relationship between the class and other classes play an important role in determining the quality of an object-oriented system. Class cohesion evaluates the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods, whereas class coupling refers to the degree to which a cla...

This paper introduces a structured goal-oriented agent-based process modelling framework, where advanced requirements engineering techniques are combined with software quality modelling approaches, to provide an environment within which the stakeholders and the analysts can easily cooperate to discover, verify and validate the new IT system requirements. It forces and assists the stakeholders, ...

Measurement and improvement of e-service quality is important for sustaining competitive advantage of an e-commerce web site. A number of e-service quality measures have recently been developed that predominantly rely on the subjective evaluation of diverse quality attributes. To increase the objectivity of e-service quality measurement a recently developed measure of e-service quality has been...

MOTIVATION The process of producing microarray data involves multiple steps, some of which may suffer from technical problems and seriously damage the quality of the data. Thus, it is essential to identify those arrays with low quality. This article addresses two questions: (1) how to assess the quality of a microarray dataset using the measures provided in quality control (QC) reports; (2) how...

Software architecture evaluation plays an important role in the validation of quality models of software systems. This paper is based on the research carried out where the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM) was used. ATAM was chosen and used because it provides insight into the way quality attributes are mapped onto architecture and also shows the trade-offs existing between the iden...

The relative potential of various technologies for the confirmation of food authenticity and quality are discussed. Techniques that have found new applications in the field of quality assurance since 2001 are discussed in terms of their potential ease of application in an industrial setting. The use of specific techniques with chemometric analysis for the classification of food samples based on...

QbD is a systemic approach to pharmaceutical development. It means designing and developing formulations and manufacturing processes to ensure predefined product quality. Some of the QbD elements include defining a target product quality profile, designing product and manufacturing processes, identifying critical quality attributes, process parameters, and sources of variability and controlling...

We present a tool, called POIESIS, for automatic ETL process enhancement. ETL processes are essential data-centric activities in modern business intelligence environments and they need to be examined through a viewpoint that concerns their quality characteristics (e.g., data quality, performance, manageability) in the era of Big Data. POIESIS responds to this need by providing a user-centered e...