Software Reuse plays an important role in the world of software development. This leads to better development time and cost. Software Reuse is not used much because of unavailability of needed components, Unknown available component, Unstructured storage of relevant component, improper retrieval of components, unwillingness of developer etc. Unstructured Storage of Component is taken as a probl...

Using data from a web-based survey of software developers, the author attempts to determine root causes of " death march " projects and excessive work hours in the software industry in relation to company practices and management. Special emphasis is placed on the factor of business/technical supervisor background. An analysis of variance revealed significant differences between these superviso...

The focus of the paper is evaluation of the software development process regardless of the underlying software development approach. The process of evaluation is scrutinized from two perspectives: (1) “measurement for management”, when results of evaluation are used for managing and improvement of the software development, and (2) “measurement for analysis”, when results of evaluation are used ...

We will demonstrate new software for analysing social media networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, in real time to calculate influence ratings that identify influential individuals and assess sentiment within a conversation. The software utilises the new dynamic centrality measures [1,2] developed at the Universities of Reading and Strathclyde and allows a changing social network to be investi...

Software reliability for business applications is becoming a topic of interest in the IT community. An effective method to validate and understand defect behaviour in a software application is Fault Injection. Fault injection involves the deliberate insertion of faults or errors into software in order to determine its response and to study its behaviour. Fault Injection Modeling has demonstrate...

ÐThis paper examines and proposes an approach to writing software specifications, based on research in systems theory, cognitive psychology, and human-machine interaction. The goal is to provide specifications that support human problem solving and the tasks that humans must perform in software development and evolution. A type of specification, called intent specifications, is constructed upon...

Data mining implies "digging through tons of data" to uncover implicit information. Software defect is an essential characteristic of software development process, offering much information about software quality assurance. Based on the information supplied by defects, it can help a software team with capability of software quality assurance. In order to dig through lots of defects to uncover i...