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Software vulnerabilities are present in most software applications. However, vulnerability detection techniques usually suffer from the same issues: reporting items that are not actual vulnerabilities or not detecting all vulnerabilities. There are ...

Background: Software practitioners need reliable metrics to monitor software evolution, compare projects, and understand modularity variations. This is crucial for assessing architectural improvement or decay. Existing popular metrics offer little help, ...

In the healthcare industry, software quality plays a crucial role as it is used in almost all systems used for medical intervention. If the quality of healthcare software is not considered, it can potentially have a negative effect and may create ...

Predicting faults in software aims to detect defects before the testing phase, allowing for better resource allocation and high-quality software development, which is a requisite for any organization. Machine learning techniques aid in the ...

Software plays an important role in many of the systems and devices that make up our modern societies. In order to provide their customers with software of a higher quality in a shorter amount of time, numerous software companies are developing software ...

Software reuse has proven to be an effective strategy for developers to significantly increase software quality, reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of software development. Research in software reuse typically addresses two main hurdles: ...

Context: the Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that provides an ecosystem for a fast-growing quantity of connected devices, also defined as cyber-physical devices. Problem: the creation of Internet of Things solutions is fairly complex, having to ...

Modern service-oriented software applications, like those envisioned in cloud computing scenarios, operate in highly dynamic and often unpredictable environments that can degrade their quality of service. Therefore, it is increasingly important to ...

Industry 4.0 has fostered the digital transformation of enterprises through the retrofitting or replacement of traditional manufacturing processes with Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Even if interoperability is paramount to correctly operate CPS, ...

Software evolution consists of adapting, correcting, and updating a system. It is widely known that the systems became increasingly complex and challenging to be maintained over their evolution. However, the way the systems’ internal structure evolves ...

Comprehending the degree to which software components support testing is important to accurately schedule testing activities, train developers, and plan effective refactoring actions. Software testability estimates such property by relating code ...

When changes are made to software applications often, defects can occur in software applications, and eventually leads to expensive operational faults. Comprehensive testing is not feasible with the limited time and resources available. There is a ...

Effort estimation models have been long studied in software engineering research. Effort estimation models help organizations and individuals plan and track progress of their software projects and individual tasks to help plan delivery milestones ...

Large software systems often comprise programs written in different programming languages. In the case when cross-language interoperability is accomplished with a Foreign Function Interface (FFI), for example pybind11, Boost.Python, Emscripten, PyV8, or ...

Sorting software modules in order of defect count can help testers to focus on software modules with more defects. Many approaches have been proposed to accomplish this. In order to compare approaches more fairly, researchers have provided publicly ...

Mutant generation is the process of generating several variations of a base program by applying elementary modifications to its source code. Mutants are useful only to the extent that they are semantically distinct from the base program; the problem of ...

Software measurement processes require to consider more and more data, measures and metrics. Measurement plans become complex, time and resource consuming, considering diverse kinds of software project phases. Experts in charge of defining the ...

Assessment of software quality remains the focus of important research efforts, with several proposed quality models and assessment methodologies. ISO 25010 describes software quality in terms of characteristics such as reliability, security or ...

Source code clones are categorized into four types of increasing difficulty of detection, ranging from purely textual (Type-1) to purely semantic (Type-4). Most clone detectors reported in the literature work well up to Type-3, which accounts for ...

The philosopher Aristotle seeks the definition of man as a political being, responsible for making decisions. Political decisions generate changes in their environment and in producing change they seek constant adaptations, which in turn leads to ...