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Cost, schedule and quality are highly correlated factors in software development. They basically form three sides of the same triangle. Beyond a certain point (the "Quality is Free" point), it is difficult to increase the quality without increasing ...

Medical device software is a risky business. Failure of the software can have potentially catastrophic effects, leading to injury of patients or even death. It is therefore no surprise that regulators throughout the world are penalising medical device ...

The selection of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components is currently a central activity in the development of information systems. Criteria for selecting COTS components include both technical and non-technical issues. Whilst many catalogues of ...

In a competitive environment where time-to-market is crucial for success, software development companies initiate process improvement programs that can shorten the development time. They especially seek improvements in the verification activities since ...

Due to its economic impact "maintainability" is broadly accepted as an important quality attribute of software systems. But in contrast to attributes such as performance and correctness, there is no common understanding of what maintainability actually ...

Testing is, for most, a necessary evil in the software life cycle. One very important form of testing is the evaluation of software products according to mandated criteria or guidelines such as those that specify level of accessibility. Such evaluations ...

In use-case driven software development, a project is organized as sequence of use-case development workflows. Here, we describe a process where each workflow instance is a sequence of model transformation steps, whose outcome has to pass defined ...

Software process improvement has been a focus of industry for many years. To assist the procedure and implementation of software process improvement we provide a software process recovery method based on mining project enactment data. The goal of ...

In this paper, we describe our experience with using problem reports from industry for quality assessment. The non-uniform terminology used in problem reports and validity concerns have been subject of earlier research but are far from settled. To ...

A design pattern documents a reference design for the solution to a recurring problem encountered in object-oriented software development. The fundamental theme of design patterns is to encapsulate the concepts that vary. Software practitioners ...

Despite the exponential increase in the demand for software and the increase in our dependence on software, many software manufacturers behave in an unpredictable manner. In such an unpredictable software manufacturer organization, it is difficult to ...

A relatively unexplored area in the field of software management is the implementation or release decision, deciding whether or not a software product can be transferred from its development phase to operational use. Many software manufacturers have ...

There are various ways to evaluate defect-detection techniques. However, for a comprehensive evaluation the only possibility is to reduce all influencing factors to costs. There are already some models and metrics for the cost of quality that can be ...

The emerging technology of component-based software engineering offers huge potentials for quicker and easier software development. Meanwhile, it imposes big challenges on performance optimization of component-based software systems. Tolerance design ...