—Coupling in software applications is often used as an indicator of external quality attributes such as fault-proneness. In fact, the correlation of coupling metrics and faults i...
This paper presents two empirical usability studies based on techniques from Human-Computer Interaction HCI and software engineering, which were used to elicitate requirements fo...
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
We consider empirical evaluation of the availability of the deployed software. Evaluation of real systems is more realistic, more accurate, and provides higher level of confidenc...