ESEC '97/FSE-5Pub Date : 1997-11-01DOI: 10.1145/267895.267916
C. Ebert
{"title":"Experiences with criticality predictions in software development","authors":"C. Ebert","doi":"10.1145/267895.267916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/267895.267916","url":null,"abstract":"Cost-effective software project management has the serious need to focus resources on those areas with highest criticality. The paper focuses on two areas important for practical application of criticality-based predictions in real projects, namely the selection of a classification technique and the use of the results in directing management decisions. The first part is comprehensively comparing and evaluating five common classification techniques (Pareto classification, classification trees, factor-based discriminant analysis, fuzzy classification, neural networks) for identifying critical components. Results from a current large-scale switching project are included to show practical benefits. Knowing which technique should be applied the second area gains even more attention: What are the impacts for practical project management within given resource and time constraints? Several selection criteria based on the results of a combined criticality and history analysis are provided together with potential decisions.","PeriodicalId":297962,"journal":{"name":"ESEC '97/FSE-5","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116509982","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}
ESEC '97/FSE-5Pub Date : 1997-11-01DOI: 10.1145/267895.267928
Stéphane Ducasse, T. Richner
{"title":"Executable connectors: towards reusable design elements","authors":"Stéphane Ducasse, T. Richner","doi":"10.1145/267895.267928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/267895.267928","url":null,"abstract":"The decomposition of a software application into components and connectors at the design stage has been promoted as a way to describe and reason about complex software architectures. There is, however, surprisingly little language support for this decomposition at implementation level. Interaction relationships which are identified at design time are lost as they get spread out into the participating entities at implementation. In this paper, we propose first-class connectors in an object-oriented language as a first step towards making software architecture more explicit at implementation level. Our connectors are run-time entities which control the interaction of components and can express a rich repertoire of interaction relationships. We show how connectors can be reused and how they enhance the reuse of components.","PeriodicalId":297962,"journal":{"name":"ESEC '97/FSE-5","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123654496","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}