The fundamental goal of all good design and engineering is to create maximal value added for any given investment. There are many dimensions in which value can be assessed, from m...
Deployment of SSDs in enterprise settings is limited by the low erase cycles available on commodity devices. Redundancy solutions such as RAID can potentially be used to protect a...
The economic benefit of a certain development process or particular activity is usually unknown and indeed hard to predict. However, the cost-effectiveness of process improvement...
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...
There are various ways to evaluate defect-detection techniques. However, for a comprehensive evaluation the only possibility is to reduce all influencing factors to costs. There ...