10.4103/japtr.JAPTR_343_17 Dear Friends, Based on quality risk management, the pharmaceutical quality by design (QbD) has been emerged as a logical methodology for the development which commences with prior delineated goals and accentuates better understanding of product and process control. The basis of QbD strategy is International Conference on Harmonization guidelines. QbD approach is surfa...

The purpose of this report is to evaluate if software metrics can be used to determine the object-oriented design quality of a software system. Several metrics and metric-tools are presented and evaluated. An experimental study was conducted as an attempt to further validate each metric and increase knowledge about them. We present strategies on how analysis of source code with metrics can be i...

This paper describes a quality assurance project, which is conducted within the framework of the Nordic Five Tech Alliance (N5T), a strategic alliance of the five leading technical universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The project is concerned with the development of a common quality enhancement tool. The tool is designed for conducting peer evaluations of educational programs en...

This paper addresses cross-cultural issues in Software Process Improvement (SPI). Cultural factors, which may have a bearing on successful adoption and implementation of Software Quality Management Systems, were identified during a field-study in five countries. A self-assessment model, called CODES, has been developed for use by organisations developing software in different parts of the world...

This paper describes advances in power quality monitoring equipment and software tools for analyzing power quality measurement results. Power quality monitoring has advanced from strictly problem solving to ongoing monitoring of system performance. The increased amount of data being collected requires more advanced analysis tools. Types of power quality variations are described and the methods ...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a customer-oriented design tool for developing new or improved products to increase customer satisfaction by integrating marketing, design engineering, manufacturing, and other related functions of an organization. QFD aims to maximize customer satisfaction; however, considerations such as cost budget, technical difficulty, etc. limit the number and the exte...

The paper describes a practical experience of measuring and modelling software quality using a development process based on the User-Centred Design approach. A crucial aspect of this approach is related to the evolution of the developed system due to the iterative design process. The experiment concerns of designing and evaluating prototypes for a train traffic control system for the Italian Na...

Currently, open source software communities are thriving and the number of projects that are available through well known code repositories is rapidly increasing over the years. The amount of code that is freely available to developers facilitates high reuse opportunities. One of the major concerns of developers when reusing code is the quality of the code that is going to be reused. Design pat...

Quality is an important aspect of data discovery in the Semantic Sensor Web. This work extends current endeavors to make the Sensor Web more semantic by introducing an ontology design pattern which facilitates the modeling of aspects of spatial data quality. The implementation of a software program over two scenarios demonstrates the usefulness of the ontology design pattern for the Semantic Se...

 Abstract—Currently, there are few user friendly Weigh-inMotion (WIM) data analysis softwares available which can produce traffic input data for the recently developed AASHTOWare pavement Mechanistic-Empirical (ME) design software. However, these softwares have only rudimentary Quality Control (QC) processes. Therefore, they cannot properly deal with erroneous WIM data. As the pavement perform...