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There are a number of authors who have documented problems with our software development processes. Unrealistic schedules and budgets, with continuing steams of requirements changes lead to projects with a high risk of failure. There is too often only a ...

Implementing software process improvement (SPI) program successfully in a software organization is possibly the most challenging issue that the industry faces today. It is even more challenging to implement an SPI program in software organizations of ...

Information security and privacy are the major concerns in healthcare domain. However, there lacks a comprehensive framework for evaluating the security engineering practices for healthcare systems. Current transition from institution-centered to ...

With multiple developers engaged in collaboratively writing software code, responsibility for a specific piece of code is difficult to assign. Nonetheless, responsibility is a major factor in achieving quality and preventing code from being developed ...

Software process modeling has become an essential technique for managing, investigating and improving software development processes. In this area, hybrid process simulation modeling attracts an increasing research attention. This paper presents a new ...

Managing requirements on quality aspects is an important issue in the development of software systems. Difficulties arise from expressing them appropriately what in turn results from the difficulty of the concept of quality itself. Building and using ...

Various models and techniques have been proposed and applied in literature for software quality prediction. Specificity of each suggested model is one of the impediments in development of a generic model. A few models have been quality factor specific ...

The emergence of new information system (IS) service technologies yields opportunities and challenges in identifying and monitoring quality of services that providers are delivering. Unfortunately, very few approaches have applied accurate and unbiased ...

The hypothesis of this research is that usability relates to the physical effort that is required in order to use software in the accomplishment of interactive tasks. Implications of this hypothesis are significant since effort is an objective quantity ...

Refactoring is an important activity to improve software quality, which tends to become worse through repetitive bug fixes and function additions. Unfortunately, it is difficult to perform appropriate refactorings because a refactoring needs certain ...

Systems development needs to reconcile views from many roles, such as domain experts and engineers. A particular challenge is the multitude of models for requirements and quality, which can get time consuming and error prone to trace, change, and ...