ware engineering faces today is software quality, due to the growing number of products and services on the market and the consequent increase in competition. There is a worldwide trend toward quality, and software is no exception. The subject has been a cause of much concern to software researchers, who tend to focus on two main objectives: how to get quality software and how to estimate its q...

Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is becoming popular due to the benefits of software reuse and the availability of many alternatives of reusable components. By the reuse of existing software components that have already been tested, software engineers may reduce errors and shorten the time to market of the system under development. However, software engineers still have a problem in ...

In order to measure the quality of talent cultivation at the school of software engineering, a quality evaluation model based on fuzzy theory is put forward. In the model, a three-layer architecture, which is composed of overall goal layer, second goal layer, and attribute layer, is set up. It places emphasis on the demand of talents with practicability and engineering in the field of software ...

becoming more generalized, representing a considerable efficient design for the embedded industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before embedded software component's industry reaches the maturity exhibited by other hardware component industries. Problems such as the ...

Effective evaluation of software development effort is an important issue during project plan. This study provides a model to predict development effort based on the software size estimated with function points. We generalize the average amount of effort spent on each phase of the development, and give the estimates for the effort used in software building, testing, and implementation. Finally,...

Quality assurance (QA) tasks, such as testing, profiling, and performance evaluation, have historically been done in-house on developergenerated workloads and regression suites. Since this approach is inadequate for many systems, tools and processes are being developed to improve software quality by increasing user participation in the QA process. A limitation of these approaches is that they f...

This paper proposes a modified software quality evaluation method based on products comparison, judging by user perceived satisfaction in terms of quality. The focused evaluation model is formulated on the bases of the ISO 9126 quality model as a generally accepted standard and ISO 12119 for software package, and of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is appropriate for comparing paired ...

Based on a set of case studies in eight European countries a method of software evaluation has been designed within ESPRIT Project SCOPE (Software evaluation and certification programme Europe). This method deals with several types of information: software characteristics and metrics, product and process information, and evaluation techniques. In order to be applicable the method is supported b...

Restructuring is an important activity to improve software internal structure. Even though there are many restructuring approaches, very few consider the refactoring impact on the software quality. In this paper, we propose an semiautomatic software restructuring approach based on quality attributes. We rely on the measurements of the Quality Model for Object Oriented Design (QMOOD) to recommen...

The use of highly iterative software development methodologies, such as Agile and Lean, have been growing. However, these methodologies do not explicitly provide practices for managing and measuring software quality. This deficiency may prevent software development organizations in critical domains from transforming from traditional development to highly iterative development. These organizatio...