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Tool support for managing repetitive program changes in evolving software 在不断发展的软件中管理重复程序变更的工具支持

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-05-23 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5356

Vamshi Krishna Epuri, Sushma Sakala, Tae-Hyuk Ahn, Myoungkyu Song

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引用次数: 0

Dealing with crosscutting and dynamic features in component software using aspect-orientation: requirements and experiences 使用面向方面的方法处理组件软件中的横切和动态特性:需求和经验

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-05-16 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5324

Abdelhakim Hannousse

{"title":"Dealing with crosscutting and dynamic features in component software using aspect-orientation: requirements and experiences","authors":"Abdelhakim Hannousse","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5324","url":null,"abstract":"Coping with crosscutting and dynamic features of software systems has significant impacts on software modularity, reusability, adaptability, and maintainability. However, dealing with such features is a tremendous challenge for different software paradigms, particularly component-based software development (CBSD) where components can be used as black box software units. Fortunately, dealing with crosscutting features is the main focus of aspect-orientation (AO). To compromise, a plethora of different AO and CBSD combinations are available. There is, however, little consensus on how AO and CBSD can be combined and what AO qualities need to be integrated for getting maximum benefits from the combination. In the aim to reach a consensus and increase the understanding of requirements for proper combinations that deal with crosscutting and dynamic features, the authors conduct a domain analysis study of existing combination endeavours; they first identify a set of requirements ought to be fulfilled for proper modelling of crosscutting and dynamic features in component software using AO; second, they group the identified requirements into an evaluation model; third, they check the capability of existing combinations to validate the evaluation model. The study highlighted mandatory requirements for proper combinations and revealed that none of the existing endeavours validates the evaluation model.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"17 1","pages":"434-446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85638911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

MBT in agile/lightweight processes: a process-centred review 敏捷/轻量级过程中的MBT:以过程为中心的审查

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-04-09 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5164

Masoumeh Taromirad, Raman Ramsin

{"title":"MBT in agile/lightweight processes: a process-centred review","authors":"Masoumeh Taromirad, Raman Ramsin","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5164","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a process-driven view on the use of model-based testing (MBT) in agile/lightweight processes. It argues that process-related aspects of MBT and agile processes should be explicitly considered in any practical MBT approach intended for use in agile development (AD). It demonstrates that an effective MBT approach for lightweight processes has to specify how MBT activities are integrated into a development process, how and when MBT artefacts are generated in relation to other development artefacts, and who would carry out MBT activities. Accordingly, a set of integration criteria is introduced for complete incorporation of MBT into agile/lightweight processes. The integration criteria demonstrate the specific characteristics of an appropriate MBT process for AD processes, and help identify the benefits and shortcomings of existing methods on the use of MBT in such processes. Evaluation of existing works based on the proposed integration criteria shows that they have all focused on minimal modelling, and only one method has considered the ‘evolution’ of test models and the ‘reuse’ of test cases, whereas ‘evolution’ and ‘reuse’ are essential characteristics of agile processes, which have to be addressed in any MBT approach intended for such processes.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"30 1","pages":"327-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74104626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Joint distribution matching model for distribution-adaptation-based cross-project defect prediction 基于分布自适应的跨项目缺陷预测联合分布匹配模型

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-04-09 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5131

Shaojian Qiu, Lu Lu, Siyu Jiang

{"title":"Joint distribution matching model for distribution-adaptation-based cross-project defect prediction","authors":"Shaojian Qiu, Lu Lu, Siyu Jiang","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5131","url":null,"abstract":"Using classification methods to predict software defect is receiving a great deal of attention and most of the existing studies primarily conduct prediction under the within-project setting. However, there usually had no or very limited labelled data to train an effective prediction model at an early phase of the software lifecycle. Thus, cross-project defect prediction (CPDP) is proposed as an alternative solution, which is learning a defect predictor for a target project by using labelled data from a source project. Differing from previous CPDP methods that mainly apply instances selection and classifiers adjustment to improve the performance, in this study, the authors put forward a novel distribution–adaptation-based CPDP approach, joint distribution matching (JDM). Specifically, JDM aims to minimise the joint distribution divergence between the source and target project to improve the CPDP performance. By constructing an adaptive weight vector for the instances of the source project, JDM can be effective and robust at reducing marginal distribution discrepancy and conditional distribution discrepancy simultaneously. Extensive experiments verify that JDM can outperform related distribution–adaptation-based methods on 15 open-source projects that are derived from two types of repositories.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"48 1","pages":"393-402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90386052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Methodology for the quantification of the effect of patterns and anti-patterns association on the software quality 模式和反模式关联对软件质量影响的量化方法

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-04-09 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5087

Shahid Hussain, J. Keung, Mohammad Khalid Sohail, A. Khan, G. Ahmad, M. Mufti, Hasan Ali Khattak

{"title":"Methodology for the quantification of the effect of patterns and anti-patterns association on the software quality","authors":"Shahid Hussain, J. Keung, Mohammad Khalid Sohail, A. Khan, G. Ahmad, M. Mufti, Hasan Ali Khattak","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5087","url":null,"abstract":"The employment of design patterns is considered as a benchmark of software quality in terms of reducing the number of software faults. However, the quantification of the information about the hinder design issues such as the number of roles, type of design pattern, and their association with anti-pattern classes is still required. The authors propose a new methodology to evaluate the impact of certain design issues on the software quality in terms of quantification of fault density. Firstly, they mine the required information about the classes of each system under study. Secondly, they describe taxonomy to group the classes. Subsequently, they used statistical techniques to formulate and benchmark the results. They include the analysis of four open source projects with six design patterns and six anti-patterns in the case study. The main consequences are (i) the pattern participant classes are less dense in faults, (ii) the classes involved in the structural association between design patterns and anti-patterns are denser in faults, (iii) the pattern participant classes with multi-role and anti-pattern smell association is denser in faults as compared to others. The significant difference between fault density distributions of groups of classes is still unclear and required further empirical investigation.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"os-20 1","pages":"414-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87896332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Demand Based Test Case Generation for Object Oriented System 面向对象系统基于需求的测试用例生成

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-04-09 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5043

Rajvir Singh, R. Bhatia, Anita Singhrova

引用次数: 9

Auction-based serious game for bug tracking 基于拍卖的严重游戏的漏洞跟踪

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-03-25 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5144

Çagdas Üsfekes, Eray Tüzün, Murat Yilmaz, Yagup Macit, Paul M. Clarke

引用次数: 3

Recommending human resources to project leaders using a collaborative filtering-based recommender system: Case study of gitHub 使用基于协同过滤的推荐系统向项目负责人推荐人力资源:gitHub案例研究

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-02-25 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5261

Shohreh Ajoudanian, M. Abadeh

{"title":"Recommending human resources to project leaders using a collaborative filtering-based recommender system: Case study of gitHub","authors":"Shohreh Ajoudanian, M. Abadeh","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5261","url":null,"abstract":"Recommender systems (RSs) are a significant subclass of the information filtering system. RSs seek to predict the rating or preference that a user would give to an item in various online application community fields. Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique which predicts user distinctions by learning past user-item relationships. However, it is hard to perceive the comparable interests between customers in light of the fact that the sparsity problem is caused by the deficient number of the relationship between users. It is a challenge which limited the ease of use of CF. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy C-means clustering approach which is used to deal with this sparsity problem by utilising a sparsest sub-graph detection algorithm in defining initial centres of the clustering method. The approach uses adaptability of fuzzy logic to make better personalised recommendations in terms of precision, recall and F-measure. The authors present a case study where GitHub is used to show the effectiveness of authors’ approach. Authors’ model can recommend relevant human resources (HR) to project leaders who have participated in similar projects. The comparative experiment results show that the planned approach will effectively solve the sparseness drawback and produce suitable coverage rate and recommendation quality.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"11 1","pages":"379-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84015509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

Search-based software engineering for optimising usability of user interfaces within model transformations 基于搜索的软件工程，用于优化模型转换中用户界面的可用性

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2019-01-25 DOI: 10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5161

Marwa Hentati, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Lassaad Ben Ammar, A. Mahfoudhi

{"title":"Search-based software engineering for optimising usability of user interfaces within model transformations","authors":"Marwa Hentati, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Lassaad Ben Ammar, A. Mahfoudhi","doi":"10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/IET-SEN.2018.5161","url":null,"abstract":"Search-based Software Engineering stands for an important area of research which involves finding optimal solutions for software engineering problems according to a set of conflicting objectives. One of these problems is improving the software quality such as usability of user interfaces following the model-driven engineering (MDE) paradigm. Transforming models consist of a set of transformation rules that describe how a component from a source model can be transformed into one or several target models. Although alternative target models may be equivalent from the functional viewpoint, they may differ from the non-functional perspectives. Besides, they do not fulfil the same usability aspects. In this context, search-based algorithms aim to identify which alternative transformation will produce a highly-usable target model. This study addresses this issue by combining the power of model transformations engine and search-based techniques. Specifically, the proposed approach defines model transformation as a usability optimisation problem. It allows the search of the optimal alternative transformation from a large search space taking into account a set of required usability attributes and using an evolutionary algorithm.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"107 1","pages":"368-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80478644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Efficient parameter estimation of software reliability growth models using harmony search 基于和谐搜索的软件可靠性增长模型参数估计

IET Softw. Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2015.0171

Ankur Choudhary, A. Baghel, O. Sangwan

{"title":"Efficient parameter estimation of software reliability growth models using harmony search","authors":"Ankur Choudhary, A. Baghel, O. Sangwan","doi":"10.1049/iet-sen.2015.0171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen.2015.0171","url":null,"abstract":"The primary challenge of software reliability growth model is to find the unknown model parameters that are used to validate on software failure dataset. Though, numerical estimation technique plays a vital role in parameter estimation of software reliability growth models, they are not optimal as they suffer from constraints sucha as sample size, biasing, and initialisation of parameters. In this study, a parameter estimation of software reliability growth model that utilises a variant of harmony search is proposed. Extensive experiments are conducted on seven different software datasets of varying complexity. A robust experimental setup is developed employing an orthogonal array and Taguchi method. Two-fold performance comparisons are performed. First, the authors tested their proposed approach against Cuckoo search and numerical method (least square estimation) considering mean square error and Theil's statistics as a quality measure. Second, the authors applied statistical tests are performed that demonstrate the superiority of their approach over the others. The underlying motivation to conduct this study is to motivate researchers to utilise their approach for a better estimation of model parameters.","PeriodicalId":13395,"journal":{"name":"IET Softw.","volume":"12 8 1","pages":"286-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90481877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7