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Background: Experiment-driven development with the help of real usage data helps to build software products and services that are of high value to their users. As more software companies use experimentation in their development practises, ethical concerns are increasingly important. Objective: There is a need for understanding the ethical issues companies must take into account when practising experimentation...
Unit testing has been considered as having a key role in building high quality software, and therefore it has been widely used in practice. However, data on the relationship between unit testing and aspects of software quality remain scarce. A survey study with 235 survey responses from seven organizations was conducted in order to understand the correlation between practitioners' perception of code...
Due to the fact that software development is a product of team effort it is important to investigate the influence of group developmental psychology on software development performance. In this case study we wanted to test how performance (i.e. velocity and planning effectiveness) are related to the group's maturity level. We gave the Group Development Questionnaire (the GDQ) to 19 software developers...
Software testing is designed in various company hierarchy, such as end product/service providers and subcontractors. An end product/service providers generally has a severe responsibility for their software quality, while a subcontractor has a limited responsibility. There can be a hypothesis that there is differences in software quality between service providers and subcontractors. To examine the...
Software effort estimation is vital but challenging activity during software development. In many small or medium-sized companies, such challenges are stemmed from historical data shortage. The problem can be solved by leveraging cross-company data for effort estimation. While in practice, cross-company effort estimation may not be easy to take because the cross-company data for effort estimation...
Many research studies have been conducted to help simultaneous code changes on multiple code fragments. Code clones and logical couplings are often utilized in such research studies. However, most of them have been evaluated on only open source projects or students' software. In this paper, we report our academic-industrial collaboration with a software company. The collaboration is intended to suggest...
This paper focused on the petroleum engineering services and the data of path and regression analysis from users of each drilling engineering company were calculated by the partial least squares method. Based on the whole comparison, This paper has achieved the evaluation of the existing user satisfaction evaluation system of drilling engineering services, and mainly illustrates key factors and effects...
Companies have employed for years 1st generation Functional Size Measurement (FSM) methods, e.g., IF PUG Function Points Analysis (FPA), collecting IF PUG-based historical data useful for benchmarking and estimation purposes. With the advent of 2nd generation FSM methods (e.g., COSMIC) the need for resizing past projects utilizing these new measures arises. The adoption of 2nd generation FSM methods...
Innovation and internationalization are two important factors for growth. This study analyzes whether innovativeness has an effect on the internationalization of software firms, and if so, how strong this effect is. Innovation and internationalization have rarely been studied together, with research tending to focus more on the relationship between innovations and growth. However, internationalization...
Within Software Product Lines (SPL) features are well understood and facilitate the communication among SPL developers and domain experts. However, the feature specification task is usually based on natural language, which can present lack of clarity, non-conformities and defects. In order to understand the feature non-conformity in SPL, this paper presents an empirical study to investigate the possible...
This study aims to investigate the perceptions of software professionals in relation with impact of agile practices to accelerate the delivery of software products. Quantitative data obtained from a sample of 109 professionals were collected and analyzed by Pearson correlation and factor analysis. The results of factor analysis showed that the perception of professionals in relation to agile practices...
Manage the evolution in Software Product Lines (SPL) can bring some benefits such as keep the trace ability between assets in core assets and products, avoid some irregular growth or decrease before it becomes a threat to the system, and also use the products feedback to improve the core asset quality. In order to understand the evolution in SPL, this paper presents an empirical study to investigate...
The goal of this article is to identify criteria used in industrial practice to select members of a software project team, and to look for relationships between these criteria and project success. Initially, using semi-structured interviews for data collection and qualitative methods for data analysis and synthesis, a set of team building criteria was identified from project managers in industry....
According to the diversity of software development risk, the complication of evaluation indexes and the comprehensive evaluation hardly with the present evaluation method, the software development risk was divided into three grade indexes. 13 risk evaluation indexes were constructed based on the different stage of real situation in the course of software development. Based on the grey decision-making...
In this paper, based on factor analysis, we select 9 different finance indicators such as current ratio, return on assets (ROA)and total assets growth rate,etc, in order to conduct comparative studies on financial competitiveness in fertilizer manufacturing listed companies of China, then we reach several conclusions and give some relevant advice.
From the view of tax categories and incentive modes, employing the published information of 87 listed companies from electronic information, software, machinery manufacturing and measuring instrument in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, this paper analyzes the effect of existing tax incentive policy on the enterprises' technology innovation in our country. The results show that our existing tax...
The effect of intangible to corporation performance becomes more important. especially in telecommunication equipment corporation, which is capital-intensive, technology-intensive and knowledge-intensive corporation. This resource commitment represent the intangible assets. Based on a hypothesis that the intangible assets do effcet toward corporation performance, it makes a case study by use of data...
After theoretical considerations of organizational changes, the research findings were presented in relation to the following: the selection of the optimal model for implementation of organizational changes in the maritime company that is the subject of analysis and establishing of the character of the correlation between the organizational changes, the productivity level and the ship service time...
In this paper we use the people capability maturity model (P-CMM) to focus on the improvement of people capability of software organization. Firstly, on the basis of the investigation to software enterprises in Hangzhou, the questions of P-CMM2 are abstracted and perfected further, and totally 31 questions are chosen in this research. Secondly, a questionnaire survey is conducted in software enterprises...
The flexibility of enterprise management system is one of the important ways in which modern enterprise gets competitive advantage facing with complex and changing environment, and is essential to enhance its environmental adaptability and stability. To cultivate and enhance the flexibility of management system in an enterprise, the effective approach is to estimate it scientifically and reasonably...
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