Software measures are of paramount importance to evaluate both processes and products. However, collecting such data requires a large effort and this activity produces benefits only in the long term. For these reasons, companies have to use automated tools able to collect data without affecting both the productivity and the process. This approach is useful to reduce the effort related to the me...

Abstract This paper offers a compositional take on two internally complex conditional connectives in Mandarin, zhi-yao ‘only-need’ and zhi-you ‘only-have’. While the former conveys antecedent proposition’s minimal sufficiency , latter its necessity for consequent proposition to come true. Both will be treated as pairing an exclusive particle, zhi with modal, assumption that is less controversia...