As far as international standards for promoting Software Process Quality are concerned, one of the most popular and accepted is ISO 15504 (or SPICE model). On the other hand, since a development methodology must guide the main activities in software development, it is necessary that this one fulfils some Quality Base Practices to guarantee a high-level product. The purpose of this research is a...

BACKGROUND Assessing the impact of disease severity on generic quality of life (QOL) is a critical step in outcomes research and in the development of decision-analytic models structured around health states defined by clinical measures. While data from routine clinical practice found in healthcare registers are increasingly used for research, more attention should be paid to understanding the ...

Early estimations and predictions of software quality attributes are essential to be in control of software development and to allow for delivery of software products which fulfil the requirements put on them. This paper focuses on a method enabling estimation and prediction of software reliability from the specification and design documents. The method is based on dynamic analysis of a well-de...

0950-5849/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.05.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 431 2503703; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Kannabiran). Context: Cost advantage has been one of the primary drivers of successful offshoring engagements of Indian software and services companies. However, the emphasis has shifted to the ability of the vendors to provide hig...

Web service monitoring tools have become an essential component for Service Level Agreement (SLA) because they can collect real quality values of quality attributes to estimate the quality level of services. Since users monitor more than one quality attribute at the same time, quality levels are prone to vary during monitoring time, producing a conflict among quality attributes. In this study, ...

BACKGROUND In economic evaluations of care services for older adults health-related quality of life (QoL) measures such as the EQ-5D are increasingly replaced by the ICECAP-O and ASCOT, which cover a broader scope of QoL than health alone. Little is known about the content validity and feasibility of these measures. The purpose of this study was to explore the content validity and feasibility o...