Software quality is evolving beyond static measurement to a wider scope of quality definition. Previous studies have indicated the importance of human aspect in software quality. But software quality models have not included comprehensively this aspect together with the behavioural aspect of the quality. This research has proposed a Pragmatic Quality Factors (or PQF) as a software quality measu...

Developing high-quality asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine systems (ASFTSs) remains a challenge. However, there is no accepted understanding as to what are the important quality characteristics for this type of software system and/or what defines a mature software process for producing high-quality ASTFSs. Through adopting a multi-step research methodology, we define a quality model fo...

Software cost estimation (SCE) remains a complex problem, which continues to attract considerable research at an early stage in the software development process. Researchers have attempted different approaches. Lately, models based on artificial intelligence techniques have been developed. Case base reasoning (CBR) has emerged recently as a promising approach, with comparable accuracy and it is...

User eXperience (UX) is a key factor in the success of software systems. Many software companies face challenges in their work with UX and how to integrate UX practices into existing development processes. A better understanding of these challenges, based on empirical data, can help researchers and practitioners better address them in the future. Existing research does not analyse UX practices ...

the aim of this paper is to identify the quality factors of business to business (b2b) electronic commerce applications. having in mind the above-mentioned goal, a model will be developed in three phases. at the first stage, well-known software quality models are studied for choosing a model as the basis and using the quality factors of web applications and through referring to the quality char...

The demand for quality software system is increasing day by day because quality defines the capability of the software systems. Software systems are root of any developing systems. They are always checked on the basis of their quality. The quality characteristics are considered as very important aspects by development of software system. The evaluation of quality also plays important role in th...

Refactoring is a well-known process that is thought to improve the maintainability of object-oriented software. Although a lot of refactoring patterns are introduced in several pieces of literature, the quality of refactoring patterns is not always discussed. Therefore, it is difficult for developers to determine which refactoring patterns should be given priority. In this paper, we propose two...

Quality is a major challenge throughout software projects, it is important to analyze and assess quality of a software project. Regular quality measurement is key when it comes to running a successful project. This paper presents a quantitative quality evaluation model of software project for Web application. This model uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Fuzzy Mathematical theory and expe...

In our lives are governed by large, complex systems with increasingly complex software, and the safety, security, and reliability of these systems has become a major concern. As the software in today’s systems grows larger, it has more defects, and these defects adversely affect the safety, security, and reliability of the systems. Software engineering is the application of a systematic, discip...

A main assumption of software process improvement (SPI) is that improvements in a software development process result in higher quality software products. In other words, SPI assumes the existence of causal relations between process and product characteristics. To what extent have these causal relations, however, been explored? Which specific process improvements have which particular impact on...