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Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather than organizational, and all of the usual ...

Article 5 ID: 1449608 DOI: 10.1145/1449603.1449608 It has long been recognized that there is a need for a comprehensive model for graduate software engineering education in the U.S. and worldwide. This article describes such an initiative and invites ...

Software inspections, reviews, and walkthroughs have become a standard process component in many software development domains. Maturity level 3 of the CMM-I requires establishment of peer reviews [12] and substantial sustained improvements in quality ...

Maintenance of software systems has become a major concern for software developers and users. In environments, where software changes are frequently required to improve software quality, chan-geability is an important characteristic of maintainability ...

The academic and commercial sectors have shown an interest in Component Based Software Development (CBSD) because devel-oping and using various component forms as building blocks can significantly enhance software based system development and use. The ...

The work of the new FP7 ICT DEPLOY Integrated Project (February 2008 -- January 2012) [1] is driven by the tasks of achieving and evaluating industrial take-up, initially by DEPLOY industrial partners, of DEPLOY methods and tools, together with the ...

Component-Based Development (CBD) approach now is widely accepted in software industry. This approach enables efficient application development through the integration of already developed software components. The success of these applications heavily ...

Many Runtime/Dynamic metric suites for object-oriented software systems have been devised over the past decade. This paper introduces a new dynamic metric-based evaluation and analysis tool for Java and C++ software called DynaMetrics that is capable of ...