Software development tools primarily focus on supporting the technical work. Yet no matter the tools employed, the process followed, or the size of the team, important aspects of ...
Christine A. Halverson, Jason B. Ellis, Catalina D...
—This paper describes the results of an investigation into a set of metrics for object-oriented design, called the MOOD metrics. The merits of each of the six MOOD metrics is dis...
Richard H. Carver, Steve Counsell, Reuben V. Nithi
As software evolves, maintenance practices require a process of accommodating changing requirements while minimizing the cost of implementing those changes. Over time, incompatibi...
Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed ...
Software reliability models are an important tool in quality management and release planning. There is a large number of different models that often exhibit strengths in differen...