Cost effectiveness is one of the important issues for developing products in a life cycle. And review is a key activity that can detect defects from the early stage and fix them. This paper provides Value-based review techniques adding cost ...

Defect-detection techniques, like reviews or tests, are still the prevalent method to assure the quality of software. However, the economics behind those techniques are not fully understood. It is not always obvious when and for how long to use which ...

Different systems have different success-critical stakeholders. Even for the same system, these stakeholders may depend on it in different ways for different scenarios. Therefore a one-size-fits-all dependability metric is unachievable in practice. In ...

Capability Maturity Model (CMM) from Software Engineering Institute has been used successfully by many organizations for software process improvement. However, there exists a disconnection between business goals and maturity levels. A new framework ...

The support of software quality in a software development process may be regarded under two aspects: first, by providing techniques, which support the development of high quality software and second, by providing techniques, which assure the required ...

For almost 10 years there have been attempts in Thailand to improve software quality by adopting western software process improvement models. Only 17 of the 380 companies in Thailand were able to implement software process models that we see here in the ...

We have proposed a new approach to software quality combining cleanroom methodologies and formal methods. Cleanroom emphasizes defect prevention rather than defect removal. Formal methods use mathematical and logical formalizations to find defects early ...

In industrial practice, information on post-release field quality of a product tends to become available too late in the software development process to affordably guide corrective actions. An important step towards remediation of this problem of late ...

During the design of a software system impreciseness can manifest itself in for instance the requirements or performance estimations. While it is common to eliminate the impreciseness by information that can not be justified, it is better to model the ...

In this paper, we explain our refactoring support tool Aries. Aries characterizes code clones by several metrics, and suggests how to remove them.

Software systems with inherent real time characteristics have become the driving force in many areas of technology like the automotive sector. Control functions of cars, driver assistance as well as systems for information and entertainment are ...

Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in order to provide a means of customizing the language for particular needs. The stereotypes can increase the comprehension of UML diagrams and therefor influence reading techniques ...

Many Web Applications are depending on keeping a loyal user group. This is partly archived by frequent updates, including new content, new presentation and new functionality. Time-to-market (TTM) is an important requirement for these updates. This pose a ...