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Decision making and requirements scoping occupy central roles in helping to develop products that are demanded by the customers and ensuring company strategies are accurately realized in product scope. Many companies experience continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Krzysztof Wnuk , Markus Borg , Sardar Muhammad Sulaman

In the era of revolution, the development of softwares are increasing daily. The quality of software impacts the most in software development. To ensure the quality of the software it needs to be reviewed and updated. The effectiveness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Shaykh Siddique

Software reliability is an important quality attrib-ute, often evaluated as either a function of time or of system structures. The goal of this study is to have this metric cover both for component-based software, be-cause its reliability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wen-Li Wang , Mei-Huei Tang

To ensure the quality of software systems, software engineers can make use of a variety of quality assurance approaches, such as software testing, modern code review, automated static analysis, and build automation. Each of these quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ali Khatami , Andy Zaidman

Several code summarization techniques have been proposed in the literature to automatically document a code snippet or a function. Ideally, software developers should be involved in assessing the quality of the generated summaries. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Massimiliano Di Penta , Gabriele Bavota

Documentation is an important mechanism for disseminating software architecture knowledge. Software project teams can employ vastly different formats for documenting software architecture, from unstructured narratives to standardized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Neil A. Ernst , Martin P. Robillard

Developers often extract methods to improve readability, understanding, and reuse, while inlining keeps logic in one block. Prior work based on static metrics has not shown clear differences between these practices, and the human side of…

A large number of metrics have been proposed for the quality of object oriented software. Many of these metrics have not been properly validated due to poor methods of validation and non acceptance of metrics on scientific grounds. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Devpriya Soni , Ritu Shrivastava , M. Kumar

Software architecture is the foundation of a system's ability to achieve various quality attributes, including software performance. However, there lacks comprehensive and in-depth understanding of why and how software architecture and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yutong Zhao , Lu Xiao , Chenhao Wei , Rick Kazman , Ye Yang

Requirements are key artefacts to describe the intended purpose of a software system. The quality of requirements is crucial for deciding what to do next, impacting the development process's effectiveness and efficiency. However, we know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Emil Lind , Javier Gonzalez-Huerta , Emil Alégroth

Software developers use metrics to evaluate code quality and productivity, but these practices are still rare in programming education. This project bridges the gap by collecting real-time learning analytics from individual student and…

Software engineering is continuously facing the challenges of growing complexity of software packages and increased level of data on defects and drawbacks from software production process. This makes a clarion call for inventions and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-15 R. Selvarani , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , V. Kamakshi Prasad

It is well known that the software process in place impacts the quality of the resulting product. However, the specific way in which this effect occurs is still mostly unknown and reported through anecdotes. To gather a better understanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Rasul Tumyrkin , Manuel Mazzara , Mohammad Kassab , Giancarlo Succi , JooYoung Lee

Recent years have seen growing interest in the retrofitting of type systems onto dynamically-typed programming languages, in order to improve type safety, programmer productivity, or performance. In such cases, type system developers must…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Esben Andreasen , Colin S. Gordon , Satish Chandra , Manu Sridharan , Frank Tip , Koushik Sen

Many researchers have criticized the field of Software Complexity metrics for the lack of testing, verification, and reproducibility of many metrics and case studies that utilized those metrics. This document describes SMF, a tool that can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Charles Hathaway

Lehman's Laws teach us that a software system will become progressively less satisfying to its users over time, unless it is continually adapted to meet new needs. Understanding software maintenance can potentially relieve many of the pains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Stanislav Levin , Amiram Yehudai

Following code style conventions in software projects is essential for maintaining overall code quality. Adhering to these conventions improves maintainability, understandability, and extensibility. Additionally, following best practices…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Alvari Kupari , Nasser Giacaman , Valerio Terragni

Data quality describes the degree to which data meet specific requirements and are fit for use by humans and/or downstream tasks (e.g., artificial intelligence). Data quality can be assessed across multiple high-level concepts called…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Vasileios Papastergios , Lisa Ehrlinger , Anastasios Gounaris

Early prediction of software quality is important for better software planning and controlling. In early development phases, design complexity metrics are considered as useful indicators of software testing effort and some quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Anh Nguyen-Duc

Increasing code velocity is a common goal for a variety of software projects. The efficiency of the code review process significantly impacts how fast the code gets merged into the final product and reaches the customers. We conducted a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Gunnar Kudrjavets , Ayushi Rastogi