We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
One of the main cost factors in software development is the detection and removal of defects. However, the relationships and influencing factors of the costs and revenues of defe...
Software process improvement is an iterative activity, normally involving measurement, analysis, and change. For most organizations, the existing software process has substantial ...
Shihong Huang, Scott R. Tilley, Michael VanHilst, ...
This paper presents a framework that draws on Structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged softw...
—The amount of effort needed to maintain a software system is related to the technical quality of the source code of that system. The ISO 9126 model for software product quality ...