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Publications and source records attributed to Menzies, T..
We present an approach to matching software practitioners' needs to software researchers' activities. It uses an accepted taxonomical software classfication scheme as intermediary, in terms of which practitioners express needs, and researchers express activities.
This study benchmarks several FSS techniques and reports several studies where a large set metrics were reduced to a handful with little loss of detection accuracy. This result raises the possibility that software defect detection may be much simpler than previously believed.
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We present an approach to matching needs (practioner requirements) to solutions (researcher activities). A taxonomical classification scheme acts as intermediary between needs and activities. Expert practitioners exprss their needs in terms of this taxonomy. Researchers express their activities in the same terms. A decision support tool is used to assist in the combination and study of their expressions of needs and activities.
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We have had success using heuristic search techniques able to explore a large space of design options to locate optimal designs within that space.
Planning for the optimal attainment of requirements is an important early lifecycle activity. However, such planning is difficult when dealing with competing requirements, limited resources, and the incompleteness of information available at requirements time.
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The more we know about software costs and benefits, the more precisely we can analyze the trade-offs between options in a software project.
This paper describes an ongoing effort to address these challenges by means of a synergistic collaboration of research tools.
The proposed usage of Rapture/SP2 in this paper is to identify 'smaller' portions of a system that are more likely to contribute to hazardous behavior.