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Dedication To my grandmother, my parents and Jia, thanks for their support and love. iii Acknowledgements This dissertation could not have been finished without many people's support and help. The person I am mostly appreciated for is my advisor: Dr. Barry Boehm. How lucky I am to be his student and work with him for almost 4 years. I cannot achieve today's goal without his consistent guidance, encouragement and support on every aspect of my student life. I also sincerely thank my other committee members: Dr. Neno Medvidovic and Dr. Bert Steece, for the great guidance and feedbacks on my research, presentations and drafts of dissertation. I want to give my special thanks to Ed Colbert, who provides me many useful feedbacks on this research. I felt very happy working with him and learned many things from him. I would also thank for Dr George Freidman and Dr Rick Selby, who gave me many suggestions on how to extend my research and future research areas. I want to thank for my family for the unconditionally love and support. I won't be achieving today's success without his inspiration in my childhood. He is always the greatest person in my life. My mother, even did not spend much time with me, still gave me the best love and care in the world. My lovely younger sister, I will be always loving you and taking care of you. I really want to share all my success with my grandmother. I feel so sad I could not be with her in her last few days. Grandmother and aunt Nan, I wish you could feel all the happiness I feel now, and be very peaceful in the heaven.