Conventional software engineering tends to focus on a small part of the software life cycle: the design and implementation of a product. The bulk of the lifetime cost is in the ma...
During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...
—Object-oriented software quality models usually use metrics of classes and of relationships among classes to assess the quality of systems. However, software quality does not de...
As a software system evolves to accommodate new features and repair bugs, changes are needed. Software components are interdependent, changes made to one component can require cha...
Software standards are highly recommended because they promise faster and more efficient ways for software development with proven techniques and standard notations. Designers who...
William C. Chu, Chih-Wei Lu, Chih-Hung Chang, Yeh-...