—Many factors are believed to increase the vulnerability of software system; for example, the more widely deployed or popular is a software system the more likely it is to be att...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie A. ...
Background: Software Process Improvement (SPI) is intended to improve software engineering, but can only be effective if used. To improve SPI's uptake, we should understand w...
Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to desi...
This paper presents an initial design of the "Plug-nAnalyze" framework for the tradeoff analysisin determining architecture alternatives that have different strength and...
Intermediate COCOMO Model computes effort as a function of program size and a set of cost drivers. Effort adjustment factor (EAF) is calculated using 15 cost drivers. EAF is an imp...