Software architecture evaluation has been widely accepted as a powerful means to mitigate risks in the design and evolution of software systems. To date we have conducted more than 75 architecture evaluation projects with industrial customers in the past decade. One recurring lesson learned that we experienced across many architecture evaluation projects is that maintainability indeed is a vers...

it is vital in every language classroom that the best pos- sible materials be chosen as they are considered to play the next most important role in learning a foreign language after the teacher. all teachers are responsible to evaluate what they intend to take to the language classroom. these days, language teachers have the preference to equip their classes with technology as a supplement to b...

Software measurement is a quantified attribute of a characteristic of a software product or the software process. It is a discipline within software engineering. Measurement programs in software organizations are an important source of control over quality, defects evaluation and cost in software development. Software measurement has evolved into a key software engineering discipline. It introd...

Due to the importance of software architectural documents, its review became a fundamental activity for the success of software projects and for the software quality improvement. Software architecture evaluation is a subject that has been intensively studied by diverse research groups. However there is a lack of formal reviews aiming at identifying the existence of software evaluation approache...

software architecture is considered one of the most important indices of software engineering today. software architecture is a technical description of a system indicating its component structures and their relationships, and is the principles and rules governing designing. the success of the software depends on whether the system can satisfy the quality attributes. one of the most critical as...

introduction: quality of health services is the rate of achievement to the most desirable resultants of health, so that provided services are effective, efficient, and affordable. thus, quality evaluation can be an important source of information for recognition of problems and favorable plans in provision of treatment services. method: in this cross-sectional study, criteria of quality in hosp...

Software architecture evaluation is an effective means of addressing quality related issues early in the software development lifecycle. Scenario-based approaches to evaluate architecture usually involve a large number of stakeholders, who need to be collocated for faceto-face evaluation meetings. Collocating a large number of stakeholders is an expensive and time-consuming exercise, which may ...

Thresholds for the majority of software metrics are still not known. This might be the reason why a measurement method that should be part of a software quality assessment process is not yet present in object-oriented software industry. In this work, we applied an empirical method to 111 system dataset, identifying thresholds for 17 object-oriented software metrics. Furthermore, we propose some...

The paper describes an approach, which we developed to assess the expected quality of software for a huge governmental system. The assessment was done on behalf of the customer, and not of the development company, and was performed within two years along with the software development process. Our approach was based on a modification to GQM and was focused on the evaluation of the quality of met...

The selection and design of quality assurance (QA) methods for software development projects a) involves tradeoffs that are not always made explicit and b) the impacts of the selection decisions on project success and risks may be not well understood. Similar to SEI’s ATAM analysis technique for software architecture quality and risk evaluation, this paper introduces the ideas for QATAM, a tech...