Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software wi...
Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...
The lifecycle of defects reports and enhancement requests collected in the Bugzilla database of the GNOME project provides valuable information on the evolution of the change requ...
Software is an increasing and important part of many products and systems. Software, hardware, and system level components have been developed and produced following separate proc...
We propose an approach (GQM/MEDEA) for defining measures of product attributes in software engineering. The approach is driven by the experimental goals of measurement, expressed v...
Lionel C. Briand, Sandro Morasca, Victor R. Basili