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Software cost estimation is one of the prerequisite managerial activities carried out at the software development initiation stages and also repeated throughout the whole software life-cycle so that amendments to the total cost are made. In…

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Software development effort estimation is one of the most major activities in software project management. A number of models have been proposed to construct a relationship between software size and effort; however we still have problems…

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Effort estimation models are a fundamental tool in software management, and used as a forecast for resources, constraints and costs associated to software development. For Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, effort estimation is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Gregorio Robles , Andrea Capiluppi , Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona , Bjorn Lundell , Jonas Gamalielsson

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades. If factors that influence software quality can be identified, they may provide more insight for better software development management. More precise quality assurance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Jie Xu , Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Software is a field of rapid changes: the best technology today becomes obsolete in the near future. If we review the graduate attributes of any of the software engineering programs across the world, life-long learning is one of them. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Luiz Fernando Capretz , Fahem Ahmed , Fabio Queda Bueno da Silva

Agile processes focus on facilitating early and fast production of working code, and are based on software development process models that support iterative, incremental development of software. Although agile methods have existed for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Dan Turk , Robert France , Bernhard Rumpe

Software development comprises complex tasks which are performed by humans. It involves problem solving, domain understanding and communication skills as well as knowledge of a broad variety of technologies, architectures, and solution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Christoph Matthies , Guenter Hesse

We review the literature relating to soft skills and the software engineering and information systems domain before describing a study based on 650 job advertisements posted on well-known recruitment sites from a range of geographical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Faheem Ahmed , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Salah Bouktif , Piers Campbell

Many software development problems can be addressed by program analysis tools, which traditionally are based on precise, logical reasoning and heuristics to ensure that the tools are practical. Recent work has shown tremendous success…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Michael Pradel , Satish Chandra

Software modernization is an inherent activity of software engineering, as technology advances and systems inevitably become outdated. The term "software modernization" emerged as a research topic in the early 2000s, with a differentiation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Wesley K. G. Assunção , Luciano Marchezan , Alexander Egyed , Rudolf Ramler

The aims of our research are to evaluate the prediction performance of the proposed neuro-fuzzy model with System Evaluation and Estimation of Resource Software Estimation Model (SEER-SEM) in software estimation practices and to apply the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Wei Lin Du , Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Feature selection has been recently used in the area of software engineering for improving the accuracy and robustness of software cost models. The idea behind selecting the most informative subset of features from a pool of available cost…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Efi Papatheocharous , Harris Papadopoulos , Andreas S. Andreou

Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that apply predictive models and that present well-preformed studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yanming Yang , Xin Xia , David Lo , Tingting Bi , John Grundy , Xiaohu Yang

Empirical software engineering is concerned with measuring, or estimating, both the effort put into the software process and the quality of its product. We defend the idea that measuring process effort and product quality and establishing a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Françoise Détienne , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Willemien Visser

The software product line aims at the effective utilization of software assets, reducing the time required to deliver a product, improving the quality, and decreasing the cost of software products. Organizations trying to incorporate this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Faheem Ahmed , Luiz Fernando Capretz

The continuous evolution of software projects necessitates the implementation of changes to enhance performance and reduce defects. This research explores effective strategies for learning and implementing useful changes in software…

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Software is an important tool for scholarly work, but software produced for research is in many cases not easily identifiable or discoverable. A potential first step in linking research and software is software identification. In this paper…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Eva Maxfield Brown , Lindsey Schwartz , Richard Lewei Huang , Nicholas Weber

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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cong Tran , Ajith Abraham , Lakhmi Jain

Software Engineering and the implementation of software has become a challenging task as many tools, frameworks and languages must be orchestrated into one functioning piece. This complexity increases the need for testing and analysis…

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