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METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Acceptance Issues in Metrics Program Implementation
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and individual issues are s...
Medha Umarji, Henry Emurian
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Measuring Productivity on High Performance Computers
In the high performance computing domain, the speed of execution of a program has typically been the primary performance metric. But productivity is also of concern to high perfor...
Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Victor R. Basili, Sima Asgari...
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On Refactoring Support Based on Code Clone Dependency Relation
Generally, code clones are regarded as one of the factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a set of source code fragments identical or similar to ea...
Norihiro Yoshida, Yoshiki Higo, Toshihiro Kamiya, ...
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Managing Uncertainty in Requirements: A Survey in Documentation-Driven and Agile Companies
This paper investigates commonalities and differences between Agile and Documentation-driven approaches in managing uncertainty in requirement gathering. The research method is a ...
Alberto Sillitti, Martina Ceschi, Barbara Russo, G...
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Software, Performance and Resource Utilisation Metrics for Context-Aware Mobile Applications
As mobile applications become more pervasive, the need for assessing their quality, particularly in terms of efficiency (i.e. performance and resource utilisation), increases. Alt...
Caspar Ryan, Pablo Rossi
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Coupling on the Understandability and Modifiability of OCL Expressions within UML/OCL Combined Models
Diagram-based UML notation is limited in its expressiveness thus producing a model that would be severely underspecified. The flaws in the limitation of the UML diagrams are solve...
Luis Reynoso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini, M. E...
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Analysis of Software Productivity over Time
OBJECTIVE - the aim is to investigate how software project productivity has changed over time. Within this overall goal we also compare productivity between different business sec...
Rahul Premraj, Martin J. Shepperd, Barbara A. Kitc...
METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Metrics of Software Architecture Changes Based on Structural Distance
Software architecture is an important form of abstraction, representing the overall system structure and the relationship among components. When software is modified from one ver...
Taiga Nakamura, Victor R. Basili