Laws set requirements that force organizations to assess the security and privacy of their IT systems and impose the adoption of the implementation of minimal precautionary securi...
Luca Compagna, Paul El Khoury, Fabio Massacci, Res...
In spite of the intense efforts of metrics researches, the impact of object-oriented software metrics is for the moment still quite reduced. The cause of this fact lies not in an ...
—In the modern car, electronic devices are even employed for safety-critical missions like brake control, where failures might cost human lives. Among various approaches to incre...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
With the advent of UML and MDA, models play an increasingly important role in software development. Hence, the management of the quality of models is of key importance for complet...