Background: The accurate prediction of where faults are likely to occur in code can help
direct test effort, reduce costs, and improve the quality of software. Objective: We investigate …

In recent years, a number of business reasons have caused software development to
become increasingly distributed. Remote development of software offers several …

In this paper we examine the current state of play with regards to the security of smart city
initiatives. Smart city technologies are promoted as an effective way to counter and manage …

Software reliability is one of the most important characteristics of software product quality. Its
measurement and management technologies during the software product life-cycle are …

Quantitatively-based risk management can reduce the risks associated with field defects for
both software producers and software consumers. In this paper, we report experiences and …

Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) products are widely used although a general
consensus on their quality is far to be reached. Providing results on OSS reliability-as quality …

Predicting software quality as perceived by a customer may allow an organization to adjust
deployment to meet the quality expectations of its customers, to allocate the appropriate …

Corrective maintenance activities (bug fixing) can be performed a long time after a bug
introduction, or shortly after it. Such a time interval, ie, the bug survival time, may depend on …

CONTEXT: Predicting a number of defects to be resolved in large software projects (defect
backlog) usually requires complex statistical methods and thus is hard to use on a daily …

Context The microservices architectural style is gaining momentum in the IT industry. This
style does not guarantee that a target system can continuously meet acceptable …