TOP 10 Cited Papers For Software Enginee

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CITED PAPERS
International Journal of Software Engineering &

Applications (IJSEA)
ISSN : 0975 - 9018 ( Online ); 0976-2221 ( Print )
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Citation Count – 115
E-Government Maturity Models: A Comparative Study

Abdoullah Fath-Allah1, Laila Cheikhi1, Rafa E. Al-Qutaish2, and Ali Idri1
1
Software Project Management Research Team, ENSIAS - Mohammed V University - Souissi,
Rabat, Morocco and 2Dept. of Software Engineering & IT, École de Technologie Supérieure,
University of Québec, Montréal, Canada
ABSTRACT
Many maturity models have been used to assess or rank e-government portals. In order to assess
electronic services provided to the citizens, an appropriate e-government maturity model should be
selected. This paper aims at comparing 25 e-government maturity models to find the similarities and
differences between them and also to identify their weaknesses and strengths. Although the maturity
models present large similarities between them, our findings show that the features included in those
models differ from a maturity model to another. Furthermore, while some maturity models are covering
some features and introducing new ones, it seems that others are just ignoring them.
KEYWORDS
E-government, portal, maturity model, comparison, best practices, e-services, maturity stages
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AUTHORS
Abdoullah Fath-Allah
He holds a bachelor degree in computer science (2005) and a master degree in computer
networks with a minor in software engineering (2007) from Alakhawayn University in
Ifrane, Morocco (AUI). Abdoullah has almost an 8 years’ experience in industry, and he is
an e-HR portals’ consultant. He is currently a PhD student at ENSIAS (Morocco).
Laila Cheikhi
She is a Professor at Computer Science and Systems Analysis School (ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco). She
received a M.Sc. (2004) from University of Montréal and Ph.D. (2008) from ETS, University of Quebec
at Montreal, and Both in software engineering. She has over eight years of experience in computer
engineering at the Ministry of Finance of Morocco. Her research interests include software quality
models, software metrics, software engineering ISO standards, software product and process quality,
software engineering principles and data analysis.
Rafa E. Al-Qutaish
He is an Associate Professor at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of
Québec, Canada. He received B.Sc. in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Software
Engineering degrees in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Also, he received the Ph.D.
degree in Software Engineering from the School of Higher Technology (ÉTS),
University of Québec, Canada in 2007. His research interests are in Software
Measurement, Software Product Quality, Software Engineering Standardization,
Reverse Engineering, Software Comprehension and Maintenance, and Compiler
Construction. Dr. Al-Qutaish is a senior member of the IEEE & IEEE-CS, and also a
senior member of the IACSIT. http://www.rafa-elayyan.ca
Ali Idri
He is a Professor at Computer Science and Systems Analysis School (ENSIAS, Rabat,

Morocco). He received DEA (Master) (1994) and Doctorate of 3rd Cycle (1997)
degrees in Computer Science, both from the University Mohamed V of Rabat. He has
received his Ph.D. (2003) in Cognitive Computer Sciences from ETS, University of
Quebec at Montreal. His research interests include software cost estimation, software
metrics, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and information sciences.
A Review of Software Quality Models for the Evaluation of

Software Products
José P. Miguel1, David Mauricio2 and Glen Rodríguez3
1
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Marcos, Lima,Peru, 3 Faculty of Industrial and System Engineering, National University of
Engineering, Lima, Peru
ABSTRACT
Actually, software products are increasing in a fast way and are used in almost all activities of human life.
Consequently measuring and evaluating the quality of a software product has become a critical task for
many companies. Several models have been proposed to help diverse types of users with quality issues.
The development of techniques for building software has influenced the creation of models to assess the
quality. Since 2000 the construction of software started to depend on generated or manufactured
components and gave rise to new challenges for assessing quality. These components introduce new
concepts such as configurability, reusability, availability, better quality and lower cost. Consequently the
models are classified in basic models which were developed until 2000, and those based on components
called tailored quality models. The purpose of this article is to describe the main models with their
strengths and point out some deficiencies. In this work, we conclude that in the present age, aspects of
communications play an important factor in the quality of software.
KEYWORDS
Software Quality, Models, Software quality models, Software components, COTS

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People Factors in Agile Software Development and Project

Management
Vikash Lalsing1 , Somveer Kishnah2 and Sameerchand Pudaruth3
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Science Engineering, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Moka
ABSTRACT
With the increasing popularity of Agile Methods, many software organisations are moving away from
traditional methods to adopt Agile development methodologies. Instead of being predictive, Agile is
rather adaptive and people-focussed. It advocates a small and collaborative team that work closely
together. But team size is a factor that is in turn constrained by people factors. When implementing Agile,
these key factors are often overlooked. This study aims at identifying the underlying people factors to
consider when adopting Agile for a team to be effective. The method used is the study of three different
sized Agile teams developing products based on the same technologies and using Scrum. Both objective
and subjective measures were used and the results are supported by a survey. The results clearly show that
for agile methodologies to work well, it is crucial to select the right people for the right team.
KEYWORDS
Agile Methodology, Scrum, Agile Teams, Software Development, Project Management

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Factors Influencing Quality of Mobile Apps: Role of Mobile App

Development Life Cycle
Venkata N Inukollu1, Divya D Keshamoni2 , Taeghyun Kang 3 and Manikanta Inukollu

1
Department of Computer Science Engineering, Texas Tech University, USA, 2Rawls College of
Business, Texas Tech University, USA
3
Department of Computer Science Engineering, Wake forest university, USA and 4Department
of Computer Science, Bhaskar Engineering College, India
ABSTRACT
In this paper, The mobile application field has been receiving astronomical attention from the past few
years due to the growing number of mobile app downloads and withal due to the revenues being
engendered .With the surge in the number of apps, the number of lamentable apps/failing apps has withal
been growing. Interesting mobile app statistics are included in this paper which might avail the developers
understand the concerns and merits of mobile apps. The authors have made an effort to integrate all the
crucial factors that cause apps to fail which include negligence by the developers, technical issues,
inadequate marketing efforts, and high prospects of the users/consumers. The paper provides suggestions
to eschew failure of apps. As per the various surveys, the number of lamentable/failing apps is growing
enormously, primarily because mobile app developers are not adopting a standard development life cycle
for the development of apps. In this paper, we have developed a mobile application with the aid of
traditional software development life cycle phases (Requirements, Design, Develop, Test, and,
Maintenance) and we have used UML, M-UML, and mobile application development technologies.
KEYWORDS
Mobile applications, low quality/bad apps, mobile apps marketing, Mobile Application development,
Mobile Software Engineering, M-UML, UML

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Code Quality Evaluation Methodology Using The ISO/IEC 9126

Standard
Yiannis Kanellopoulos1, Panos Antonellis2, Dimitris Antoniou2 , Christos Makris2

, Evangelos Theodoridis2 , Christos Tjortjis*3,4, and Nikos Tsirakis2
1
University of Manchester, School of Computer Science, Manchester, U.K., 2 Dept. of Computer
Engineering and Informatics, University Of Patras, Greece, 3 Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of
Ioannina, P.O. 1186, 45110, Ioannina, Greece and 4 Dept. of Engineering Informatics and Telecoms,
University of W. Macedonia, Greece
ABSTRACT
This work proposes a methodology for source code quality and static behaviour evaluation of a software
system, based on the standard ISO/IEC-9126. It uses elements automatically derived from source code
enhanced with expert knowledge in the form of quality characteristic rankings, allowing software
engineers to assign weights to source code attributes. It is flexible in terms of the set of metrics and source
code attributes employed, even in terms of the ISO/IEC-9126 characteristics to be assessed. We applied
the methodology to two case studies, involving five open source and one proprietary system. Results
demonstrated that the methodology can capture software quality trends and express expert perceptions
concerning system quality in a quantitative and systematic manner.
KEYWORDS
Software Quality Management, Static Analysis, Software Metrics, ISO/IEC 9126

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AUTHORS
Short Biography
Yiannis Kanellopoulos is a senior consultant at SIG, based in the Netherlands. He

is responsible for carrying out software quality and risk assessments for corporate
and public clients. He holds an MSc in Information Systems Engineering and a
PhD from University of Manchester, School of Computer Science. His PhD Thesis
was related to the application of data mining techniques for supporting software
systems maintenance. He has ample experience in managing software
implementation projects.
Panos Antonellis is a Computer Engineer and a PhD student at the Dept. of

Computer Engineering and Informatics, School of Engineering, Univ. of Patras.
Dimitris Antoniou is a Computer Engineer and Researcher in the Dept. of Computer

Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras. He has obtained his diploma
from the Department in 2004 and his MSc in 2006. Since 2006, he has been a Ph.D.
student at the same Dept. His research interests focus on Data Structures,
Information Retrieval, String algorithmics, and bioinformatics, Software Quality
Assessment, Web Technologies and GIS. He has scientific work published in int’l
journals and conferences.
Christos Makris was born in Greece, in 1971. He graduated from the Dept. of
Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, in December 1993. He
received his Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics,
in 1997. He is now an Assistant Professor in the same Department. His research
interests include Data Structures, Web Algorithmics, Computational Geometry, Data
Bases and Information Retrieval. He has published over 60 papers in scientific
journals and refereed conferences.
Evangelos Theodoridis was born in Greece, in 1978. He graduated from the Dept.
of Computer Engineering and Informatics, School of Engineering, University of
Patras, in December 2002. He received his MSc. and a PhD degree from the same
Dept. His research interests include Data Structures, Web Algorithmics, Data
Bases and Information Retrieval and Bioinformatics.
Christos Tjortjis is an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Ioannina, Dept.

of Computer Science and the University of W. Macedonia, Dept. of Engineering
Informatics and Telecoms’ and an hon. Lecturer at the University of Manchester,
School of Comput er Science. He holds an MEng in Computer Engineering and
Informatics from Patras, a BA in Law from Thrace, an MPhil in Computation
from UMIST and a PhD in Informatics from Manchester. His research interests
are in data mining, software comprehension and maintenance.
Nikos Tsirakis is a Computer Engineer and Researcher at the Dept. of Computer

Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras. He obtained his B.Eng.
from the Dept. in 2004 and an MSc in 2006. Since 2006 he is a PhD student at the
same Dept. His research focuses on String algorithmics and data structures,
Hypertext modelling and searching, Software Quality Assessment, Web
Technologies and GIS. He has scientific work published in int’l journals and
conferences, and he co-authored books & encyclopaedia chapters.
Different Approaches To Black box Testing Technique For Finding

Errors
Mohd. Ehmer Khan
Department of Information Technology Al Musanna College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman
ABSTRACT
Software testing is the process of analyzing software to find the difference between required and existing
condition. Software testing is performed throughout the development cycle of software and it is also
performed to build quality software, for this purpose two basic testing approaches are used, they are
white box testing and black box testing. One of the software testing technique which I have explain in my
paper is Black Box Testing, it is a method of generating test cases that are independent of software
internal structure, I have also briefly explore various different approaches to black box testing technique
for finding errors. Since black box testing is always based either directly or indirectly on the software
specification so it is also called specification based testing.
KEYWORDS
Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis, Fuzz Testing, Orthogonal Array Testing, All Pair
Testing
Full Text: http://www.airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/1011ijsea04.pdf

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and-pairwise-testing/
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AUTHOR
Mohd. Ehmer Khan
I completed my B.Sc in 1997 and M.C.A. in 2001 from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and
pursuing Ph.D (Computer Science) from Singhania University, Jhunjhunu, India. I have worked as a
lecturer at Aligarh College Engineering & Management, Aligarh, India from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 to
2005 worked as a lecturer at Institute of Foreign Trade & Management, Moradabad, India. From 2006 to
present working as a lecturer in the Department of Information Technology, Al Musanna College of
Technology, Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman. I am recipient of PG Merit Scholarship in MCA.
My research area is software engineering with special interest in driving and monitoring program
executions to find bugs, using various software testing techniques.
MCA Based Performance Evaluation of Project Selection

Tuli Bakshi1 and Bijan Sarkar2
1
Department of Computer Application, Calcutta Institute of Technology, Howrah, India
2
Department of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
ABSTRACT
Multi-criteria decision support systems are used in various fields of human activities. In every alternative
multi-criteria decision making problem can be represented by a set of properties or constraints. The
properties can be qualitative & quantitative. For measurement of these properties, there are different
unit, as well as there are different optimization techniques. Depending upon the desired goal, the
normalization aims for obtaining reference scales of values of these properties. This paper deals with a
new additive ratio assessment method. In order to make the appropriate decision and to make a proper
comparison among the available alternatives Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and ARAS have been
used. The uses of AHP is for analysis the structure of the project selection problem and to assign the
weights of the properties and the ARAS method is used to obtain the final ranking and select the best one
among the projects. To illustrate the above mention methods survey data on the expansion of optical fibre
for a telecommunication sector is used. The decision maker can also used different weight combination in
the decision making process according to the demand of the system.
KEYWORDS
Multi-criteria decision support system, AHP, ARAS & Project selection
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AUTHORS
TULI BAKSHI
She works as an assistant professor in Computer Application department in Calcutta Institute of

Technology, West Bengal, India. She possess three master degrees in Applied Mathematics, Computer
Application and Information Technology
DR. BIJAN SARKAR
He is the Professor and Former Head of Production Engineering Department, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India. He has received Outstanding Paper Award at Emerald Literati Network for Excellences
2006, UK. He had also received the Best paper Awards from “Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering
(IIIE), Mumbai” for the year 2002 and 2003. He was also awarded Certificates of Merit by the
“Institution of Engineers India)” during 2001-02 and 2002-03. He is the Co-author of the book on
Production Management published by AICTE,CEP, New Delhi. He has published more than 150 papers
in the National / International Journals and Proceedings. He is the Reviewer of IJPR, EJOR, and IE (I).
His fields of interests include Tribology, Reliability engineering, AI, Soft-computing applications and
Decision engineering.
Formalization of the Data Flow Diagram Rules for Consistency

Check
Rosziati Ibrahim and Siow Yen Yen
Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology,

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Parit Raja, 86400, Batu Pahat, Johor Malaysia
ABSTRACT
In system development life cycle (SDLC), a system model can be developed using Data Flow Diagram
(DFD). DFD is graphical diagrams for specifying, constructing and visualizing the model of a system.
DFD is used in defining the requirements in a graphical view. In this paper, we focus on DFD and its
rules for drawing and defining the diagrams. We then formalize these rules and develop the tool based on
the formalized rules. The formalized rules for consistency check between the diagrams are used in
developing the tool. This is to ensure the syntax for drawing the diagrams is correct and strictly followed.
The tool automates the process of manual consistency check between data flow diagrams.
KEYWORDS
Consistency Check, Context Diagram, Data Flow Diagram, Formal Method

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AUTHORS
Rosziati Ibrahim is with the Software Engineering Department, Faculty of

Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn
Malaysia (UTHM). She obtained her PhD in Software Specification from the
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane and her MSc and
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of
Adelaide, Australia. Her research area is in Software Engineering that covers
Software Specification, Software Testing, Operational Semantics, Formal
Methods, Data Mining and Object-Oriented Technology.
Siow Yen Yen is a student at the Department of Software Engineering,

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun
Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia.
Survey of maintenance policies for the Last 50 Years

Asis Sarkar1 Dr Subhash Chandra Panja2 and Dr Bijan Sarkar 3
1
Department of mechanical Engineering N.I.T.Agartala, P.O.:- t.e.c, Barjala, Agartala: - 799055,(India),
2
Department of mechanical Engineering P.O.—Jadavpur University Calcutta:--700032,(India) and
3
Department of Production Engineering P.O:-- Jadavpur University Calcutta:--700032,(India)
ABSTRACT
In the past several decades, maintenance and replacement problems have been extensively
studied in the literature. Thousands of maintenance and replacement models have been created.
However, all these models can fall into some categories of maintenance policies: age
replacement policy, block replacement policy, periodic preventive maintenance policy, failure
limit policy, sequential preventive maintenance policy, repair cost limit policy, repair time limit
policy, repair number counting policy, reference time policy, mixed age policy, group
maintenance policy, opportunistic maintenance policy, etc. Each kind of policy has different
characteristics, advantages and disadvantages with lot of contributions from Research scientist,
Technologists... This survey summarizes, classifies, and compares various existing maintenance
policies Around 170 Authors and their research works are presented in the Reference section. It
will help to look into the different policies which is appropriate to the organization and for
further study the reference section will be helpful for the researchers for further knowledge
KEYWORDS
Maintenance policy; Maintenance; Reliability; Replacement; Optimization
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Study the impact of Requirements management Characteristics in

global software development projects: An Ontology based approach
S. Arun Kumar1 and T.Arun Kumar2
1
Assistant Professor, SCSE, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
2
Professor, SCSE, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
ABSTRACT
Requirements Management is one of the challenging and key tasks in the development of
software products in distributed software development environment. One of the key reasons
found in our literature survey the failure of software projects due to poor project management
and requirement management activity. This main aim of this paper 1. Formulate a framework for
the successful and efficient requirements management framework for Global Software
Development Projects. (GSD) 2. Design a Mixed organization structure of both traditional
approaches and agile approaches, of global software development projects. 3. Apply Ontology
based Knowledge Management Systems for both the approaches to achieve requirements issues
such as missing, inconsistency of requirements, communication and knowledge management
issues and improve the project management activities in a global software development
environment. 4. Propose requirements management metrics to measure and manage software
process during the development of information systems. The major contribution of this paper is
to analyze the requirements management issues and challenges associated with global software
development projects. Two hypotheses have been formulated and tested this problem through
statistical techniques like correlation and regression analysis and validate the same.
KEYWORDS
Requirements Management (RM), Ontology, Requirements Management Metrics, Knowledge

Management (KM), Global Software Development (GSD).
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