There is large uncertainty with the software cost in the early stages of software development due to requirement volatility, incomplete understanding of product domain, reuse oppor...
Da Yang, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, Mings...
The goal of our research is to develop industry-proof software architecture and design metrics. We identify a number of problems that arise in computing software architecture and ...
Johan Muskens, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Christian La...
Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Abstract— In many software design and evaluation techniques, either the software evolution problem is not systematically elaborated, or only the impact of evolution is considered...
Abstract—Change coupling is the implicit relationship between two or more software artifacts that have been observed to frequently change together during the evolution of a softw...