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A software architect uses quality requirements to design the architecture of a system. However, it is essential to ensure that the system's final architectural design achieves the standard quality requirements. The existing architectural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ritu Kapur , Sumit Kalra , Kamlesh Tiwari , Geetika Arora

Software metrics offer a quantitative basis for predicting the software development process. In this way, software quality can be improved very easily. Software quality should be achieved to satisfy the customer with decreasing the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Junaid Rashid , Toqeer Mahmood , Muhamad Wasif Nisar

Software quality in use comprises quality from the user's perspective. It has gained its importance in e-government applications, mobile-based applications, embedded systems, and even business process development. User's decisions on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Issa Atoum , Chih How Bong

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 documentation is an essential but labor intensive task that often requires a dedicated team of developers to ensure coverage and accuracy. Good documentation will help shorten the development cycle and improve the overall team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Thomas Zheng , Jeff Shaw , Sergey Kozlov

Modeling and documentation are two essential ingredients for the engineering discipline of software development. During the last twenty years a wide variety of description and modeling techniques as well as document formats has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Manfred Broy , Franz Huber , Barbara Paech , Bernhard Rumpe , Katharina Spies

Data Quality (DQ) describes the degree to which data characteristics meet requirements and are fit for use by humans and/or systems. There are several aspects in which DQ can be measured, called DQ dimensions (i.e. accuracy, completeness,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Vasileios Papastergios , Anastasios Gounaris

Software development is a complex activity which depends on diverse technologies and people's expertise. The approaches to developing software highly depend on these different characteristics, which are the context developers are subject…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Glaucia Melo , Paulo Alencar , Don Cowan

Peer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integrity of scientific publications. However, in practice it is far from perfect. We aim at understanding how reviewers, including those who have won awards for reviewing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Neil A. Ernst , Jeffrey C. Carver , Daniel Mendez , Marco Torchiano

Research shows, that the major issue in development of quality software is precise estimation. Further this estimation depends upon the degree of intricacy inherent in the software i.e. complexity. This paper attempts to empirically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Ashish Sharma , D. S. Kushwaha

Quality is a multidimensional concept that has different meanings in different contexts and perspectives. In the domain of Information system, quality is often understood as the result of an IS development process and as the quality of an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Thanh Thoa Pham Thi , Markus Helfert

Software quality is considered as one of the most important challenges in software engineering. It has many dimensions which differ from users' point of view that depend on their requirements. Therefore, those dimensions lead to difficulty…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Anas Shatnawi

Successful software projects depend on the quality of software requirements. Creating high-quality requirements is a crucial step toward successful software development. Effective support in this area can significantly reduce development…

High-quality research software is a cornerstone of modern scientific progress, enabling researchers to analyze complex data, simulate phenomena, and share reproducible results. However, creating such software requires adherence to best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Nasir U. Eisty , David E. Bernholdt , Alex Koufos , David J. Luet , Miranda Mundt

Context: Quality requirements (QRs) have a significant role in the success of software projects. In agile software development (ASD), where working software is valued over comprehensive documentation, QRs are often under-specified or not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Woubshet Behutiye , Pertti Seppanen , Pilar Rodriguez , Markku Oivo

Computer systems are so complex, so they are usually designed and analyzed in terms of layers of abstraction. Complexity is still a challenge facing logical reasoning tools that are used to find software design flaws and implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ramy Shahin

Optimizing the quality of software is a function of the degree of reviews made during the early life of a software development process. Reviews detect errors and potential errors early in the software development process. The errors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Inibehe Emmanuel Akpannah

Software is a central part of modern science, and knowledge of its use is crucial for the scientific community with respect to reproducibility and attribution of its developers. Several studies have investigated in-text mentions of software…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-04-19 David Schindler , Tazin Hossain , Sascha Spors , Frank Krüger

Software documentation is crucial for repository comprehension. While Large Language Models (LLMs) advance documentation generation from code snippets to entire repositories, existing benchmarks have two key limitations: (1) they lack a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xinchen Wang , Ruida Hu , Cuiyun Gao , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

Background: Good API documentation facilities the development process, improving productivity and quality. While the topic of API documentation quality has been of interest for the last two decades, there have been few studies to map the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , John Grundy