scholarly journals SOFTWARE PRODUCT AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT THROUGH PROFILE-BASED EVALUATION

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 495-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAURIZIO MORISIO ◽  
IOANNIS STAMELOS ◽  
ALEXIS TSOUKIAS
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Process Assessment ◽  
Process Maturity ◽  
Single View ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Definition Of

Software entities (software products or processes) are characterized by many attributes, each one in its turn can be measured by one or more measures. In several cases the software entities have to be evaluated as a whole, thus raising the problem of aggregating measures to give an overall, single view on the software entity. This paper presents a method to aggregate measures, which works by comparing the product/process with predefined, ideal entities, or profiles. Profiles are defined starting from ranges of values on measures of attributes. The method is based on two main phases, namely definition of the evaluation model and application of the evaluation model. It is presented through a simplified case study that deals with evaluating the level of quality of an asset to decide whether to accept it in a reuse repository. A plausible way of how the method could be applied to process maturity assessment is also provided. The advantages of the method are that it allows using ordinal scales, while it deals explicitly with preferences expressed, implicitly or explicitly, by the evaluator.

scholarly journals A Data-Driven Approach for Video Game Playability Analysis Based on Players’ Reviews

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Xiaozhou Li ◽  
Zheying Zhang ◽  
Kostas Stefanidis
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Binary Classification ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Definition Of

Playability is a key concept in game studies defining the overall quality of video games. Although its definition and frameworks are widely studied, methods to analyze and evaluate the playability of video games are still limited. Using heuristics for playability evaluation has long been the mainstream with its usefulness in detecting playability issues during game development well acknowledged. However, such a method falls short in evaluating the overall playability of video games as published software products and understanding the genuine needs of players. Thus, this paper proposes an approach to analyze the playability of video games by mining a large number of players’ opinions from their reviews. Guided by the game-as-system definition of playability, the approach is a data mining pipeline where sentiment analysis, binary classification, multi-label text classification, and topic modeling are sequentially performed. We also conducted a case study on a particular video game product with its 99,993 player reviews on the Steam platform. The results show that such a review-data-driven method can effectively evaluate the perceived quality of video games and enumerate their merits and defects in terms of playability.

scholarly journals An Efficient Model for Software Quality Analysis Based on User and Developer Intraction

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 715-720
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Quality ◽  
Software Metrics ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Item Quality ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Definition Of

Software metrics have a direct link with measurement in software engineering. Correct measurement is the prior condition in any engineering fields, and software engineering may be not an exemption, as those size and complicated nature of software increases, manual examination of software becomes a harder assignment. Most Software Engineers worry about the quality of software, how to measure and enhance its quality. The overall objective of this study was to asses and analysis software metrics used to measure the software product and process. In this Study, the researcher used a collection of literatures from various electronic databases, available since 2008 to understand and know the software metrics. Finally, in this study, the researcher has been identified software quality will be a method for measuring how software is designed and how well the software conforms to that configuration. A percentage of the variables that we would be searching for software superiority and Correctness, item quality, Scalability, completeness and absence of bugs of those quality standard that might have been utilized from you quit offering on that one association will be unique in relation to others for this reason it may be better to apply the software measurements to measure the quality of software and the current is most common software metrics tools to decrease the partiality of faults during the valuation of software quality. The central influence of this study is an indicationaround software metrics to illustrate for development in this field by critical investigation about key metrics initiated onboth developer and user interactiona unified definition of software quality management on User and Developer (SQMUD) is proposed

Product-Oriented Sensitivity Analysis for Multistation Compliant Assemblies

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (8) ◽  
pp. 844-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianpeng Yue ◽  
Jaime A. Camelio ◽  
Melida Chin ◽  
Wayne Cai
Keyword(s):  
Product Performance ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Final Assembly ◽  
Sensitivity Indices ◽  
Dimensional Variation ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Pattern Sensitivity ◽  
Sheet Metal Assembly

Dimensional variation in assembled products directly affects product performance. To reduce dimensional variation, it is necessary that an assembly be robust. A robust assembly is less sensitive to input variation from the product and process components, such as incoming parts, subassemblies, fixtures, and welding guns. In order to effectively understand the sensitivity of an assembly to input variation, an appropriate set of metrics must be defined. In this paper, three product-oriented indices, including pattern sensitivity index, component sensitivity index, and station sensitivity index, are defined. These indices can be utilized to measure the variation influence of a pattern, an individual part, and/or component, and components at a particular station to the dimensional quality of a final assembly. Additionally, the relationships among these sensitivity indices are established. Based on these relationships, the ranges of the sensitivity indices are derived. Finally, a case study of a sheet metal assembly is presented and discussed to illustrate the applicability of these metrics.

scholarly journals Impact of Social Responsibility on the Quality of Company Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Ana Jurić ◽  
Aleksandra Zupanc ◽  
Tjaša Štrukelj
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Company Governance ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A Company

AbstractThe central aim of the article is company governance, i.e., researching governance of a company that does not want to be only financially successful but also direct its governance toward socially responsible governance. The article begins with the definition of “theoretical backgrounds,” in which social responsibility in regard to company governance improvement in quality is explained. The article then focuses on the measurement of the quality of company governance; in the research, the selected tool chosen to evaluate the governance of the chosen company regarding social responsibility, i.e., SEECGAN index, is used. Further, the case study of a Slovenian public limited liability company is used. One of the important research findings is the recognition that the addressed part of the SEECGAN index needs to be innovated and further developed. Additional questions for the completion of the index used presents the added value of the article. This article has two limitations: 1) it focuses only on the tool chosen to evaluate the governance of the chosen company regarding social responsibility; 2) the case study is based on publicly accessible data.

scholarly journals Feature Model Configuration Based on Two-Layer Modelling in Software Product Lines

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2648
Author(s):  
Elham Darmanaki Farahani ◽  
Jafar Habibi
Keyword(s):  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Model Configuration ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Application Requirements

The aim of the Software Product Line (SPL) approach is to improve the software development process by producing software products that match the stakeholders’ requirements. One of the important topics in SPLs is the feature model (FM) configuration process. The purpose of configuration here is to select and remove specific features from the FM in order to produce the required software product. At the same time, detection of differences between application’s requirements and the available capabilities of the implementation platform is a major concern of application requirements engineering. It is possible that the implementation of the selected features of FM needs certain software and hardware infrastructures such as database, operating system and hardware that cannot be made available by stakeholders. We address the FM configuration problem by proposing a method, which employs a two-layer FM comprising the application and infrastructure layers. We also show this method in the context of a case study in the SPL of a sample E-Shop website. The results demonstrate that this method can support both functional and non-functional requirements and can solve the problems arising from lack of attention to implementation requirements in SPL FM selection phase.

Whose News Can You Trust?

2014 ◽  
pp. 324-352
Author(s):  
Rick Malleus
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Online News Sites

This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing the credibility of online news sites, allowing diaspora populations to evaluate the credibility of online news about their home countries. A definition of credibility is established as a theoretical framework for analysis, and a framework of seven elements is developed based on the following elements: accuracy, authority, believability, quality of message construction, peer review, comparison, and corroboration. Later, those elements are applied to a variety of online news sources available to the Zimbabwean diaspora that serves as a case study for explaining the framework. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the framework in relation to some contextual circumstances of diaspora populations and presents some limitations of the framework as diaspora populations might actually apply the different elements.

Organizational Effects of Information Technology

2010 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Johan Tetzlaff ◽  
Jonny Holmström
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Organizational Effects ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this chapter is to better understand the enabling and inhibiting impacts IT has on lean manufacturing. This chapter provides a rich picture of a paper mill producing liner reels and the impact of a reel administration system on the manufacturing process. It is important that an IT tool supporting lean manufacturing reflects its organization. When it does the IT tool can act as an enabler of organizational change that in turn increase productivity and the production quality, when it fails to do so it inhibits organizational change and hampers the quality of production. The conclusion is that framing the definition of high production quality regarding product and process is important and that teambuilding would be a contribution to this end by enhancing perspective taking among the employees.

scholarly journals Applying CMMI Best Practices to Improve Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 01065
Author(s):  
Sussy Bayona-Oré ◽  
Josselyn Chamilco ◽  
Dayvis Perez
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Requirements Verification

Today more and more organizations are demanding quality software products. To cover this demand, companies that provide computer solutions focus on the quality of their processes to generate value in a competitive market. This article presents the case study of an educational institution that decides to use the best practices of CMMI to improve the areas of management processes of requirements, verification and validation. The results of the improvement process show that the practices were improved, the defects decreased and the customer satisfaction was improved.

scholarly journals Measuring Software Quality Product Based on Fuzzy Inference System Techniques in ISO Standard

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atrin Barzegar
Keyword(s):  
Software Quality ◽  
Fuzzy Inference System ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Iso Standard ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The Impact

The success of a software product depends on several factors. Given that different organizations and institutions use software products, the need to have a quality and desirable software according to the goals and needs of the organization makes measuring the quality of software products an important issue for most organizations and institutions. To be sure of having the right software. It is necessary to use a standard quality model to examine the features and sub-features for a detailed and principled study in the quality discussion. In this study, the quality of Word software was measured. Considering the importance of software quality and to have a good and usable software in terms of quality and measuring the quality of software during the study, experts and skilled in this field were used and the impact of each factor and quality characteristics. It was applied at different levels according to their opinion to make the result of measuring the quality of Word software more accurate and closer to reality. In this research, the quality of the software product is measured based on the fuzzy inference system in ISO standard. According to the results obtained in this study, it is understood that quality is a continuous and hierarchical concept and the quality of each part of the software at any stage of production can lead to high quality products.

scholarly journals Exploring Multicriteria Decision Strategies in GIS with Linguistic Quantifiers – A Case Study of Residential Quality Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Malczewski ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Weighted Averaging ◽  
Decision Strategy ◽  
Decision Strategies ◽  
Linguistic Quantifier ◽  
Residential Quality ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Linguistic Quantifiers

Commonly used GIS combination operators such as Boolean conjunction/disjunction and weighted linear combination can be generalized to the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) family of operators. This multicriteria evaluation method allows decision-makers to define a decision strategy on a continuum between pessimistic and optimistic strategies. Recently, OWA has been introduced to GIS-based decision support systems. We propose to extend a previous implementation of OWA with linguistic quantifiers to simplify the definition of decision strategies and to facilitate an exploratory analysis of multiple criteria. The linguistic quantifier-guided OWA procedure is illustrated using a dataset for evaluating residential quality of neighborhoods in London, Ontario. <div><br></div><div>This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Geographical Systems. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10109-005-0159-2 <br></div>

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