Transitioning to software product line engineering is, in general, not trivial and has several risks. To provide a quantitative analysis of the feasibility of an organization for Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE), it is important to derive the corresponding metrics. In this work-in-progress paper we derive metrics for the SPLE feasibility analysis based on a goal question metrics (GQM) a...

In Software Quality Assurance, system status reports are key to the stakeholders for controlling software quality. Although we may rely on a large number of low level measurements to this end, their interpretation and the way of connecting them to high level quality attributes is always a challenge. In this paper we report on a complex project involving industrial partners whose aim is the deve...

As claimed by many behavioral scientists, designing should be based on the knowledge of interaction between human and environment. Environmental quality is also created in the context in which humans interact with their environment. To achieve such quality, designers should develop appropriate models for explaining this relationship, and this requires an understanding of human nature and the en...

Il Memming Park, Evan Archer, Nicholas Priebe, and Jonathan Pillow A popular approach for investigating the neural code is via dimensionality reduction (DR): identifying a low-dimensional subspace of stimuli that modulate a neuron’s response. The two most popular DR methods for spike train response involve first and second moments of the spike-triggered stimulus distribution: the spike-triggere...

Time Headway (TH) is a microscopic variable in traffic flow theories that has been studied since the 1930s. Distribution of this fundamental variable describes the arrival pattern of vehicles in traffic flow, so probabilistic modeling is the main approach to study TH and represents driving behavior. The applications of the variable in traffic engineering are varied ; include capacity calculatio...

For evaluating web applications (WebApps) and other entities in a systematic way an integrated measurement and evaluation (M&E) strategy is a valuable asset in any organization. We regard a M&E strategy is integrated if three coexisting capabilities are supported, namely: i) a conceptual framework, ii) a process specification, and iii) a methodological support. Under this premise, we conducted ...

This paper describes ongoing research directed at formulating a set of appropriate metrics for assessing effort requirements for multimedia systems development. An exploratory investigation of the factors that are considered by industry to be influential in determining development effort is presented. This work incorporates the use of a GQM framework to assist the metric selection process from ...

Numerous empirical studies analyse evolving open source software (OSS) projects, and try to estimate the activity and effort in these projects. Most of these studies, however, only focus on a limited set of artefacts, being source code and defect data. In our research, we extend the analysis by also taking into account mailing list information. The main goal of this article is to find evidence ...

Corresponding Author: Kotti Jayasri Department of Computer Science and Engineering, GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, AP, India E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: Software sometimes safety-critical if it resides in a safetycritical computer systems and it causes or contributes to hazards. Therefore, Safety-critical software intensive systems require verification and validation to confir...

Early Empirical Assessment of the Practical Value of GQM p. 14 Determining Organization-Specific Process Suitability p. 26 On Scoping Stakeholders and Artifacts in Software Process p. 39 Critical Success Factors for Rapid, Innovative Solutions p. 52 Process Management Evidence-Based Software Processes p. 62 SoS Management Strategy Impacts on SoS Engineering Effort p. 74 Using Project Procedure ...