The popularity and growth of the "Information SuperHighway" have dramatically increased the number of information sources available for use. Unfortunately, there are significant challenges to be overcome. One particular problem is c o n t e x t interchange, whereby each source of information and potential receiver of that information may operate with a different context, leading to largescale s...

Early estimations and predictions of software quality attributes are essential to be in control of software development and to allow for delivery of software products which fulfil the requirements put on them. This paper focuses on a method enabling estimation and prediction of software reliability from the specification and design documents. The method is based on dynamic analysis of a well-de...

Scalability is one of the most important quality attributes of today’s software systems. Yet, despite its importance, scalability in applications is poorly understood. This paper presents a model-based view of scalability in Web and other distributed applications that is aimed at removing some of the myth and mystery surrounding this important software quality. We review four models of scalabil...

A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating which of these object-oriented metrics can be used as significant predictors for the maintainability of software. For this purpose, we have designed and conducted an empirical study based on historical data collected from ...

A major goal of analytical quality assurance (QA) activities, e.g., inspection and testing, is detecting defects in software artifacts to increase product quality and decrease rework effort and cost. Inspection aims at identifying defects early and traditional testing focuses on test case generation and execution late in the development process. Combining inspection and test-case generation to ...

The popularity of distributed computing environments and the growth of the “Information SuperHighway” have dramatically increased the number of data bases available for use. Unfortunately, there are significant challenges to be overcome. One particular problem is context interchange, whereby each source of information and potential receiver of that information may operate with a different conte...

Software quality should be evaluated from different perspectives; we highlight the internal and external ones (ISO/IEC, 2002). Specially, internal quality evaluation depends on the software architecture (or design) and programming aspects rather than on the product behaviour. On the other hand, architectural evaluation methods tend to apply scenarios for assessing the architecture respect to qu...

Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases especially in the context of systems that integrate a large set of autonomous data sources. In this paper we describe a quality evaluation framework which allows evaluation of data freshness in different architectural contexts. We also show how this quality f...

The primary conclusions from the initial QARCC-1 experiment were: • QARCC-1 can help users, developers, customers, and other stakeholders to identify conflicts among their software quality requirements, and to identify additional potentially important quality requirements. In the experiment, QARCC-1 found both of the quality conflicts previously identified, plus five others considered significa...

Effects of personality profiles and human factors in software engineering (SE) have been studied from different perspectives, such as: software life cycle, team performance, software quality attributes, and so on. This study intends to compare personality profiles of software engineers in academia and industry. In this survey we have collected personality profiles of software engineers from aca...