Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0146
H. Azath, R. Wahidabanu
Software development effort estimation is important for quality management in the software development industry, yet its automation still remains a challenging issue. Accurate estimation of software effort is critical in software engineering. Existing methods for software cost estimation will use very few quality factors for the estimation. So, in order to overcome this drawback, the authors proposed an efficient effort estimation system based on quality assurance coverage. This study is a basis for the improvement of software effort estimation research through a series of quality attributes along with constructive cost model (COCOMO). The classification of software system for which the effort estimation is to be calculated based on COCOMO classes. For this quality assurance ISO 9126 quality factors are used and for the weighing factors the function point metric is used as an estimation approach. Effort is estimated for MS word 2007 using the following models: Albrecht and Gaffney model, Kemerer model, SMPEEM model (Software Maintenance Project Effort Estimation Model and FP Matson, Barnett and Mellichamp model.
软件开发工作量评估对于软件开发行业的质量管理是很重要的，但是它的自动化仍然是一个具有挑战性的问题。在软件工程中，对软件工作量的准确估计是至关重要的。现有的软件成本估算方法将使用很少的质量因素进行估算。因此，为了克服这一缺陷，作者提出了一种基于质量保证覆盖率的高效的工作量估算系统。本研究为通过一系列质量属性和建设性成本模型(COCOMO)改进软件工作量估算研究奠定了基础。基于COCOMO类来计算工作量估算的软件系统的分类。对于这种质量保证，使用ISO 9126质量因素，并使用功能点度量作为衡量因素的估计方法。使用以下模型估计MS word 2007的工作量:Albrecht和Gaffney模型，Kemerer模型，SMPEEM模型(软件维护项目工作量估计模型)和FP Matson, Barnett和Mellichamp模型。
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Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0144
Yijun Liu, A. Fong
Dynamic compilation increases Java virtual machine (JVM) performance because running compiled codes is faster than interpreting Java bytecodes. However, inappropriate decision on dynamic compilation may degrade performance owing to compilation overhead. A good heuristic algorithm for dynamic compilation should achieve an appropriate balance between compilation overhead and performance gain in each method invocation sequence. A method-size and execution-time heuristic algorithm is proposed in the study. The key principle of the algorithm is that different method-sizes necessitate different compile thresholds for optimal performance. A parameter search mechanism using a genetic algorithm for dynamic compilation is proposed to find optimised multi-thresholds in the algorithm. This heuristic algorithm is evaluated in an openJDK Java Server JVM using SPEC JVM98 benchmark suite. The algorithm shows an overall advantage in performance speedup when testing benchmarks and gain speedup by 19.1% on average. The algorithm also increases the performance of original openJDK by 10.2% when extended to the whole benchmark suite.
动态编译提高了Java虚拟机(JVM)的性能，因为运行编译后的代码比解释Java字节码要快。但是，不适当的动态编译决策可能会由于编译开销而降低性能。一个好的动态编译启发式算法应该在每个方法调用序列中的编译开销和性能增益之间实现适当的平衡。提出了一种方法大小和执行时间的启发式算法。该算法的关键原理是不同的方法大小需要不同的编译阈值以获得最佳性能。提出了一种采用遗传算法动态编译的参数搜索机制，在算法中寻找最优的多阈值。该启发式算法在openJDK Java Server JVM中使用SPEC JVM98基准测试套件进行评估。在基准测试中，该算法在性能加速方面具有总体优势，平均加速提升19.1%。当扩展到整个基准测试套件时，该算法也使原始openJDK的性能提高了10.2%。
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Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0091
Miao Wang, V. Holub, T. Parsons, P. O'Sullivan, John Murphy
Enterprise systems produce a vast amount of logging data. This critical and valuable information must be processed automatically for timely system analysis and recovery. As a result of industry demands, a standard database containing known issues has been introduced - a symptom database. Each symptom consists of a rule pattern and corresponding solutions. Patterns used for symptom identification are encoded as a XPath expression and matched against a stream of events in a standardised WSGI format common base event. The ability of an efficient matching for symptom patterns has been raised as an important requirement by industries. The authors present a real-time symptom identification in a stream of events. The implementation will allow multiple autonomic computing components such as self-monitoring sensors to effectively match known patterns in large datasets in run time. Unlike current state of the art approaches, the proposed solution allows users to define patterns using all the complex XPath functions in addition to standard numeric and Boolean operators. In particular, it was aimed at efficient simultaneous matching of a large set of XPath-based symptom patterns against a high-volume event stream, which is crucial for symptom identification but was not addressed efficiently by currently available XPath-matching engines.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2011.0110
M. Qureshi
Extreme programming (XP) is one of the most widely used agile methodologies for software development. It intends to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. Despite the facts that the use of XP offers a number of benefits and it has been a widely used agile methodology, XP does not offer the same benefits when it comes to medium and large software projects. Some of the reasons for this are weak documentation, lack of strong architecture and ignorance to risk awareness during the software development. Owing to the ever-increasing demand of agile approaches, this study addresses the problem of XP's ability to handle medium and large projects. Most of the companies that employ XP as a development methodology for medium and large projects face this problem, which echoes the importance of this problem. To address this problem, in this study XP model is extended in such a way that it equally offers its benefits for medium- and large-scale projects. As an evaluation of the extended XP, three independent industrial case studies are conducted. The case studies are described and results are presented in the study. The results provide evidence that the extended XP can be beneficial for medium and large software development projects.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0082
Hang Yu, Zhihong Deng, Ning Gao
The ability to compute top- k matches to eXtensible Markup Language (XML) queries is gaining importance owing to the increasing of large XML repositories. Current work on top- k match to XML queries mainly focuses on employing XPath, XQuery or NEXI as the query language, whereas little work has concerned on top- k match to XML keyword search. In this study, the authors propose a novel two-layer-based index construction and associated algorithm for efficiently computing top- k results for XML keyword search. Our core contribution, the two-layer-based inverted Index and associated algorithm for XML keyword search take both score-sorted-sequence and Dewey ID-sorted-sequence into consideration, and thus gain performance benefits during querying process. The authors have conducted expensive experiments and our experimental results show efficiency advantages compared with existing approaches.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-04DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2012.0027
Faiza Siddique, O. Maqbool
As requirements of organisations change, so do the software systems within them. When changes are carried out under tough deadlines, software developers often do not follow software engineering principles, which results in deteriorated structure of the software. A badly structured system is difficult to understand for further changes. To improve structure, re-modularisation may be carried out. Clustering techniques have been used to facilitate automatic re-modularisation. However, clusters produced by clustering algorithms are difficult to comprehend unless they are labelled appropriately. Manual assignment of labels is tiresome, thus efforts should be made towards automatic cluster label assignment. In this study, the authors focus on facilitating comprehension of software clustering results by automatically assigning meaningful labels to clusters. To assign labels, the authors use term weighting schemes borrowed from the domain of information retrieval and text categorisation. Although some term weighting schemes have been used by researchers for software cluster labelling, there is a need to analyse the term weighting schemes and related issues to identify the strengths and weaknesses of these schemes for software cluster labelling. In this context, the authors analyse the behaviour of seven well-known term weighting schemes. Also, they perform the experiments on five software systems to identify software characteristics which affect the labelling behaviour of the term weighting schemes.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0182
Javier Saldaña Ramos, Ana Sanz-Esteban, Javier García Guzmán, A. A. Seco
More and more software development organisations are paying attention to the improvement of the software testing process, because it is considered a key factor to ensure the quality of software products. However, the staff usually has problems developing testing activities because they do not have the appropriate competences to carry out these activities effectively; this results in low performance in organisations and increased costs of software products. A way to reduce this gap is developing a competence model that defines the roles who participate in the software testing activities as well as the general and technical competences required for them. Therefore this model could be applied to train staff in software testing activities and to recruit the appropriate profiles, which contribute to improving their performance. Considering that there is no published competence model specifically addressed to software testing, this study presents one that has been developed, analysing the literature and testing jobs and validated by experts in the software testing field using a survey as a validation method. So, as a result of this work, a competence model for software testing close to the software industry has been obtained.
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Pub Date : 2012-08-01DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0206
S. Misra, I. Akman, Ricardo Colomo Palacios
This study proposes a framework for the evaluation and validation of software complexity measure. This framework is designed to analyse whether or not software metric qualifies as a measure from different perspectives. Unlike existing frameworks, it takes into account the practical usefulness of the measure and includes all the factors that are important for theoretical and empirical validation including measurement theory. The applicability of the framework is tested by using cognitive functional size measure. The testing process shows that in the same manner the proposed framework can be applied to any software measure. A comparative study with other frameworks has also been performed. The results reflect that the present framework is a better representation of most of the parameters that are required to evaluate and validate a new complexity measure.
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Pub Date : 2012-07-05DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0070
L. F. Sanz, S. Misra
Software development is mainly a social activity where teams of developers should work as a coordinated unit to fulfill the needs of customers. Studies have shown the importance of teamwork ability as the main skill for software professionals both in local settings and in global software development. Teamwork performance can be evaluated according to different approaches but we need deeper analysis within software teams of differences in individuals' performance related to culture, nationality or even gender. We applied a simple evaluation experience named teamwork benefits awareness (TBA) to groups of last-year students of computing degrees with experience as junior IT professionals during intensive multinational workshops based on international software projects. TBA allowed to measure individual and team performance during a requirements analysis session based on a real project. Results segmented by nationality and gender are presented and analysed in comparison with the data collected from computing professionals in local settings. In general, no significant differences have been found out although interesting relations are suggested with two Hofstede's country indicators. TBA is also perceived as a good technique for highlighting both teamwork benefits as well as the nature of real situations of software requirements analysis and orientation to customer needs.
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Pub Date : 2012-07-05DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2011.0078
O. Gotel, C. Scharff, V. Kulkarni
This paper describes five years of a software engineering education initiative led by Pace University in New York City. The initiative brought together faculty and students from across the globe to work on distributed software development projects, encompassing the Institute of Technology of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, the University of Delhi in India, Mahidol University in Thailand, the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia and the Ecole Superieure Polytechnique in Senegal. The purpose of this paper is to show the trajectory that this initiative took over its first five years and to provide a resource for other instructors and institutions working on similar long-term global software development education initiatives.
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