Analyzing software metrics is an important facet to predicting quality in test system software as it helps to reduce complexity. Metrics analysis provides a quantitative assessment of how well the ...

“What gets measured,” the saying goes, “gets managed.” And if you want to change the way an organization goes about pursuing its goals, one way to do so is to change the metrics it tracks. The Defense ...

Software quality is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only the functional correctness of software systems but also the structural soundness that underpins long‐term maintainability, ...

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Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...

The ouster of Volkswagen’s CEO over buggy software this past summer was a reminder that every company is now a software company—and that senior leaders are being held accountable for the quality of ...

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” Folk wisdom, as ...

One of the central problems in software engineering is the inherited complexity. Since the software is the result of human creative activities, cognitive informatics plays an important role in ...