The use of the statistical technique of mixture model analysis as a tool for early prediction of fault-prone program modules is investigated. The Expectation-Maximum likelihood (E...
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
While significant progress has been made over the last ten years in the research field of quality assessment, developers still can't take full advantage of the benefits of the...
It is well documented that software product cost estimates are notoriously inaccurate across the software industry. Creating accurate cost estimates for software product developme...
Software cost estimation is known to be a challenging task at best, and these challenges are increased for programmers operating outside the support of an established team program...