Software metrics aim to measure the inherent complexity of software systems with a view toward predicting the overall project cost and evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the design. Aspect Oriented Software design is an emerging paradigm that provides new mechanisms to support the modularization of concerns, which otherwise would crosscut the OO system decomposition. There are various ...

The development of scientific software is usually carried out by a scientist who has little professional training as a software developer. Concerns exist that such development produces low-quality products, leading to low-quality science. These concerns have led to recommendations and the imposition of software engineering development processes and standards on the scientists. This paper utiliz...

Due to a high number of open source software over the internet, it is a challenge to determine which one – over a verity of alternatives – is the most appropriate for our intended needs. In this paper, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique along with the ISO 9126 will be integrated and applied to the selection process of open source software products. Thus, the intended features (i.e...

the present study evaluated the effect of packaging (air, vacuum) with or without addition of sodium acetate (2% w/v) on shelf-life extension of rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) under refrigeration, for a period of 18 days. four different treatments were tested: cap: control air pack; saap: sodium acetate treated aerobic packaging; vp: vacuum packaging in the absence of sodium acetate; and s...

The objectives of IT projects are presented. The quality requirements that these projects must fulfill are established. Quality and evaluation indicators for running IT projects are built and verified. Project quality characteristics are presented and discussed. Model refinement for IT project metrics is treated and a software structure is proposed. For an IT project which is designed for softw...

Over the past two decades, considerable efforts focused on improving software quality to satisfy the customers needs in software industry, but it is hard to deal with the customers needs for its vague and inexact characteristic. In order to evaluate software quality accurately and comprehensively, the weights of customers needs and the weights of technical attributes of the software are determi...

We investigate the use of fuzzy clustering for the analysis of software metrics databases. Software metrics are collected at various points during software development, in order to monitor and control the quality of a software product. We use fuzzy clustering to examine three collections of software metrics. This is one of the very few attempts to use unsupervised learning in the software metri...

In the recent years, the software product lines paradigm has gained interest in both industry and academia. As in traditional software development, the concept of quality is crucial for the success of software product line practices and both functional and nonfunctional characteristics must be involved in the development process in order to achieve a high quality software product line. Therefor...

Since the Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software become widespread components in the market for building the systems with less time and cost, the COTS evaluation and selection becomes a non-trivial task. There are many models attempted to propose a set of characteristics for evaluating and selecting COTS software. However, these models have concentrated on the functional and quality character...

Studies show that COTS-based (Commercial off the shelf) systems that are being built recently are exceeding 40% of the total developed software systems. Therefore, a model that ensures quality characteristics of such systems becomes a necessity. Among the most critical processes in COTS-based systems are the evaluation and selection of the COTS components. There are several existing quality mod...