Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
Software development organizations are beginning to recognize that measurement is a prerequisite for systematic process improvement, and have started to measure their products and...
Christopher M. Lott, Barbara Hoisl, H. Dieter Romb...
Experimentation is one way to gain insight into how processes perform for a team, but industry teams rarely do experiments, fearing that such educational excursions will incur extr...
Abstract—Many applications in wireless sensor networks require communication performance that is both consistent and high quality. Unfortunately, performance of current network p...
Shan Lin, Gang Zhou, Kamin Whitehouse, Yafeng Wu, ...
Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...