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SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
WebMetrics: A Tool for Improving Software Development
One of the biggest problems of software development is the management of software quality, both in terms of defects and easiness of maintenance. Software production and evolution ...
Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Tullio Vernazza, G...
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Run-Time Cohesion Metrics: An Empirical Investigation
Cohesion is one of the fundamental measures of the 'goodness' of a software design. The most accepted and widely studied object-oriented cohesion metric is Chidamber and...
Áine Mitchell, James F. Power
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Analysis and Metrics of XML Schema
Despite the ubiquity of XML, research in metrics for XML documents is scarce. This paper proposes and discusses eleven metrics to measure the quality and complexity of XML Schema ...
Andrew McDowell, Chris Schmidt, Kwok-bun Yue
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Straightening Spaghetti-Code with Refactoring?
Changes to software systems often entail a loss of quality, especially if they have to be accomplished under pressure of time. Long-term software projects must counter this phenome...
Markus Pizka
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Using Clustering Technique to Restructure Programs
Program restructuring or refactoring is often required when a function becomes too large or is involved in multiple activities and therefore exhibits low cohesion. A critical fact...
Chung-Horng Lung, Marzia Zaman
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
The Architectural Design of FRUIT: A Family of Retargetable User Interface Tools
Forms-based user interfaces are widely used means for human-computer interaction. However, it is difficult to exploit software reuse in forms-based systems because the systems ten...
Yi Liu, H. Conrad Cunningham, Hui Xiong
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Using ZOOM Approach to Support MDD
Model-Driven Development (MDD) represents a positive step toward a general model-based approach to software engineering. The Object Management Group (OMG) offers a conceptual fram...
Xiaoping Jia, Adam Steele, Hongming Liu, Lizhang Q...
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Using UML in a Risk-Driven Development Process
Risk-driven development focus on identifying and treating risks as an integrated part of the development process. One then obtain an adequate security level by treating security i...
Siv Hilde Houmb, Ørjan Markhus Lillevik
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling Aspects of the Dynasty 3-D Game
This paper presents the motivation as well as the development for Dynasty, a 3-D game. Dynasty is a multiplayer 3D first person shooter game that is based in Ancient China. Player...
Frederick C. Harris Jr., Brent Devaney, John Kenyo...
SERP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Software Specification of MERTIS: Modifiable Extensible Real-Time Interactive Simulation System
Game and simulation development is a difficult process because there are many low level infrastructure concerns that need to be addressed. This is a barrier to development for ine...
Frederick C. Harris Jr., Leandro Basallo, Ryan E. ...