Special Issue: Trade-off Analysis of Software Quality Attributes

Code refactoring is a “Process of restructuring an existing source code.”. It also helps in improving the internal structure of the code without really affecting its external behaviour”. It changes a source code in such a way that it does not alter the external behaviour yet still it improves its internal structure. It is a way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. Refactoring is a change made to the internal structure of a software component to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify, without changing the observable behaviour of that software component. Bad smells indicate that there is something wrong in the code that have to refactor. There are different tools that are available to identify and emove these bad smells. A software has two types of quality attributes- Internal and external. In this paper we will study the effect of clone refactoring on software quality attributes.

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Enhanced Quantitative Trade-off Analysis in Quality Attributes of a Software Architecture Using Bayesian Network Model

International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications ◽

10.4156/jdcta.vol3.issue4.7 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Ram

Keyword(s):

Bayesian Network ◽

Software Architecture ◽

Network Model ◽

Quality Attributes ◽

Bayesian Network Model ◽

Trade Off

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Synergies and conflicts among software quality attributes and bug fixes

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management ◽

10.1504/ijiscm.2017.086209 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Raed Shatnawi

Keyword(s):

Software Quality ◽

Quality Attributes ◽

Bug Fixes

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Guest editorial: special issue on predictive models for software quality

Software Quality Journal ◽

10.1007/s11219-018-9409-7 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 521-523

Author(s):

Leandro L. Minku ◽

Ayşe B. Bener ◽

Burak Turhan

Keyword(s):

Software Quality ◽

Predictive Models ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Issue ◽

Editorial Special Issue

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Quality Assessment of Standard and Customized COTS Products

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management ◽

10.4018/ijitpm.2020070101 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Sudhaman Parthasarathy ◽

C. Sridharan ◽

Thangavel Chandrakumar ◽

S. Sridevi

Keyword(s):

Software Quality ◽

Enterprise Resource Planning ◽

Software Metrics ◽

Resource Planning ◽

Quality Attributes ◽

Future Research ◽

Quality Model ◽

Erp System ◽

Cots Products ◽

Commercial Off The Shelf

Software quality is a very important aspect in evolving strategy for IT vendors involved in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) (also referred as packaged software) product development. Software metrics are widely accepted measures for monitoring and managing the quality in software projects. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are COTS products and attempt to integrate data and processes in organizations and often require extensive customization. Using software quality metrics already established in literature, software quality attributes defined by the quality model ISO/IEC 9126 were evaluated for a standard and a customized ERP product. This will help the ERP team to identify the specific quality attributes that were affected owing to customization. This research study infers that there exists a considerable impact of ERP system customization over the quality of ERP product. The implications of the findings for both practice and research are discussed, and possible areas of future research are identified.

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