Motivation: The question of what combination attributes drives the adoption a particular software technology is critical to developers. It determines both those technologies that receive wide support from community and which may be abandoned, thus rendering developers’ investments worthless. Aim Context: We model by developers provide insights on specific are associated with better visibility a...

Background: Research software is developed by and/or used researchers, across a wide variety of domains, to perform their research. Because the complexity research software, developers cannot conduct exhaustive testing. As result, researchers have lower confidence in correctness output software. Peer code review, standard engineering practice, has helped address this problem other types Aims: r...

To make privacy a first-class citizen in software, we argue for equipping developers with usable tools, as well providing support from organizations, educators, and regulators. We discuss the challenges successful integration of features propose solutions stakeholders to help perform privacy-related tasks.

As ubiquitous computing becomes an increasingly inherent component of everyday life due to the rapid growth communication technologies and globalization, threats against information systems have taken a more latent yet lethal dimension. This emergent digital security challenge has correspondingly motivated proactive change in software engineering process recent decades. inspired intense researc...

Introducing metrics to a software development organization is a complex process that begins with the difficult task of selecting a high pay-off basic suite of metrics to be implemented. The selection process is made more difficult by the fact that information on OO metrics and metrification in general is still found primarily in abstract research journals. The journals are not always accessible...

In 1977, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein published the book “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction” [1]. Although the topic of the book was architecture, it inspired Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides in their approach to pattern based software development. This ultimately led to the publication, in 1994, of the book “Design Patt...

Search engine APIs can be used very effectively to automate the surreptitious gathering of information about network assets. This paper describes GooSweep, a tool that uses the Google API to automate the search for references to individual IP addresses in a target network. GooSweep is a promising investigative tool. It can assist network forensic investigators in gathering information about ind...