—To survive and succeed, software projects need to attract and retain contributors. We model the individual’s chances to become a valuable contributor through her capacity, wil...
In software development, resources for quality assurance are limited by time and by cost. In order to allocate resources effectively, managers need to rely on their experience bac...
During software development it is helpful to obtain early estimates of the defect density of software components. Such estimates identify fault-prone areas of code requiring furth...
The evaluation of software processes is nowadays a very important issue due to the growing interest of software companies in the improvement of the productivity and quality of del...
Many architecture–based software reliability models were proposed in the past. Regardless of the accuracy of these models, if a considerable uncertainty exists in the estimates ...