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There are systems where alternative constructs need to be used for its description. In weakest precondition calculus disjunction of the post conditions of constituent guarded commands is used as the post condition of an alternative construct. Such ...

This paper presents a software risk prediction tool for risk analysis during the development of a software product. The term "Risk" refers to a problem that can threaten the success of the software project but has not happened yet. Risks are uncertain. ...

An object-oriented approach has become a commonly-used method in software-related activities. Many design metrics for object-oriented systems have been proposed and also employed for predicting and managing the quality of processes and products. To ...

Bugs are inevitable in any software development life cycle. Most bugs are detected and removed in the testing phase. In software, we can classify bugs into two categories: (1) bugs of different severity, from a user's perspective,(how much damage the ...

Software reliability is an essential part of software engineering to ensure the quality of a system. There are various techniques, which can be used in building models for predicting quality attributes. This paper presents a Fuzzy model for software ...

The increasing importance of software measurement has led to design and development of new software measures. Controlling and minimizing software complexity is the most important objective of each software development paradigm because it affects all ...

Security is an increasing concern for application developers, whether they are targeting internal customers, organizations or the general public. Particularly for the US public sector with requirements like FIPS 140, developers need to identify and ...

Time boxing is a management technique which prioritizes schedule over deliverables but time boxes which are merely a self, or an outside, imposed target without agreed partial outcomes and justified certainty are at best, an expression of good will on ...

In recent years, Software Engineering (SE) has emerged as an independent and mature discipline. In this context, various studies are being done to provide guidelines for undergraduate about graduate software engineering curriculum design. This article ...

In our civilized world today, measurement is very important in every aspect of our lives as a means of quantifying our success or progress in whatever activity we involve ourselves in. Consequently, this paper outlines the various metrics that are ...

Regression testing is primarily a maintenance activity that is performed frequently to ensure the validity of the modified software. In such cases, due to time and cost constraints, the entire test suite cannot be run. Thus, it becomes essential to ...

It is a recommended practice to use overloaded methods in a class for a group of similar operations and functions. However, it is possible that software developers may violate the rule of overloaded methods. In addition, non-overloaded method is used ...

Data warehouse integrate information from numerous data sources under a unified schema and format to provide effective results from multidimensional data analysis in order to facilitate reporting and trend analysis. These information sources are dynamic ...

Software reliability is defined as the probability of the failure free operation of a software system for a specified period of time in a specified environment. Day by day software applications are growing more complex and with more emphasis on reuse. ...

With the increasing use of information technology, information ecosystems have emerged. Information ecosystems not only include software products, but also include hardware products. For example, application software depends on system software, and both ...