The complexity of providing accurate software effort prediction models is well known in the software industry. Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques, with different ...

There is a need to develop formal protocols to verify the accuracy of software functional size measurements and to calibrate the measurement processes. These protocols offer a mechanism for accomplishing such verification ...

El objetivo del presente estudio es caracterizar las prácticas de la ingeniería de software (SE) en la industria costarricense. Para alcanzar el objetivo se diseña y ejecuta una encuesta en línea con 46 preguntas basadas ...

Background: Function point analysis (FPA) has become widely used to measure software functional size in the industry. FPA is usually performed manually, which is a time consuming and expensive process. Automated Function ...

Background: Software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort of software projects. Providing accurate software size estimation is a complex task. A number of functional size measurement ...

Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software engineering practices in the Costa Rican ...

Context: Software fault prediction has been an important research topic in the software engineering field for more than 30 years. Software defect prediction models are commonly used to detect faulty software modules based ...

La automatización de la medición del tamaño funcional es un reto para la industria del software. Una solución automatizada de conteo no es trivial, debido a que debe proporcionar un nivel aceptable en la exactitud de las ...

La medición del tamaño funcional (FSM) del software ha sido ampliamente reconocida por su utilidad en distintas fases de desarrollo y por su independencia de la tecnología. Una de las principales limitantes para la adopción ...

Context: Model-based testing (MBT) is one of the most studied approaches by secondary studies in the area of software testing. A tertiary study that aggregates knowledge from secondary studies on MBT can be useful to both ...