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WCRE
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Examining the Effects of Global Data Usage on Software Maintainability
As the useful life expectancy of software continues to increase, the task of maintaining the source code has become the dominant phase of the software life-cycle. In order to impr...
Jason W. A. Selby, Fraser P. Ruffell, Mark Giesbre...
ESEM
2007
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Effort Prediction in Iterative Software Development Processes -- Incremental Versus Global Prediction Models
Estimation of development effort without imposing overhead on the project and the development team is of paramount importance for any software company. This study proposes a new e...
Pekka Abrahamsson, Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, ...
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CSMR
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Metric of Confidence in Requirements Gathered from Legacy Systems: Two Industrial Case Studies
It is known that well over 50% of replacement projects fail. Requirements gathering go someway to contributing to this statistic; if the requirements we gather for the new system ...
James Marchant, Christos Tjortjis, Michael Turega
GECCO
2006
Springer
253views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
A novel approach to optimize clone refactoring activity
Achieving a high quality and cost-effective tests is a major concern for software buyers and sellers. Using tools and integrating techniques to carry out low cost testing are chal...
Salah Bouktif, Giuliano Antoniol, Ettore Merlo, Ma...
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SEAA
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Evaluating RUP Software Development Processes Through Visualization of Effort Distribution
In this exploratory case study, effort distribution visualizations of industrial software development projects are made in order to assess to what extent patterns can be found tha...
Werner Heijstek, Michel R. V. Chaudron