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ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Phase distribution of software development effort
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Investigating and improving a COTS-based software development
The work described in this paper is an investigation of COTS-based software development within a particular NASA environment, with an emphasis on the processes used. Fifteen proje...
Maurizio Morisio, Carolyn B. Seaman, Amy T. Parra,...
METRICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
When Can We Test Less?
When it is impractical to rigorously assess all parts of complex systems, test engineers use defect detectors to focus their limited resources. In this article, we define some pr...
Tim Menzies, Justin S. Di Stefano, Kareem Ammar, K...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Two-Phase Process for Software Architecture Improvement
Software architecture is important for large systems in which it is the main means for, among other things, controlling complexity. Current ideas on software architectures were no...
René L. Krikhaar, André Postma, M. P...
GECCO
2006
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving evolutionary real-time testing
Embedded systems are often used in a safety-critical context, e.g. in airborne or vehicle systems. Typically, timing constraints must be satisfied so that real-time embedded syste...
Marouane Tlili, Stefan Wappler, Harmen Sthamer