Software teams should follow a well defined goal and keep their work focused. Work fragmentation is bad for efficiency and quality. In this paper we empirically investigate the re...
Martin Pinzger, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murph...
An important decision problem in many software projects is when to stop testing and release software for use. For many software products, time to market is critical and therefore ...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, William Marsh, Pete...
The assessment of credibility and reputation of contractors in online auctions is the key issue in providing reliable environment for customer-to-customer e-commerce. Confident re...
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significa...
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, ...
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...