Voice of Customer is important for new product development. New product development is a complex task in which a great deal of human physical resources, methods, and tools are involved. One of the wellappreciated models is Kano model for customer needs study for product development. Customer requirements are an important component of new product development. The customer expectations to the tec...

In this study, a novel model called Function Deployment Model (FDM) for decision making in new product development is introduced. To demonstrate its usefulness pragmatically, the model is applied to the design problem of development of the micro/nano injection molding machine. Based on the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) technique, this model translates the customer needs to engineering chara...

This paper describes a formal methods case study in which one module of an existing security system was redeveloped using the \light-weight" Vienna Development Method supported by the IFAD Toolbox. The result is compared with the existing version in terms of eeort and quality. In this project, formal methods { even in its \light-weight" form { have increased software quality while the developme...

This paper consider an MMLE (Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation) based scheme to estimate software reliability using exponential distribution. The MMLE is one of the generalized frameworks of software reliability models of Non Homogeneous Poisson Processes (NHPPs). The MMLE gives analytical estimators rather than an iterative approximation to estimate the parameters. In this paper we propos...

Barbacci et al. (1995) state that the development of systematic ways to relate the quality attributes of a system to its architecture, it constitutes the basis for making objective decisions on design agreements, and helps engineers do reasonably accurate predictions as to the system attributes, free of prejudice and nontrivial assumptions. The aim is being able to evaluate architecture quantit...