The security risk of a network against unknown zero day attacks has been considered as something unmeasurable since software flaws are less predictable than hardware faults and the...
A stepwise approach is proposed to predict the performance of component compositions. The approach considers the major factors influencing the performance of component compositions...
Evgeni M. Eskenazi, Alexandre V. Fioukov, Dieter K...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
When software products are assembled from pre-defined components, performance prediction should be based on the components also. This supports rapid model-building, using previous...