Domains of Software Engineering

Quality Assurance is a set of activities keeping in check the quality of a product. In software industry following are some of the some of the aspects used for assessing the quality of the product and the process model adopted for developing the product: The quality of code: Code cohesion is minimal Code coupling is minimal Lower rate of fault detection Code is understandable Code is reusable Minimal cyclomatic complexity Minimal design complexity The quality of the process model adopted: Minimal or no communicational gap Minimal software development effort required Minimal software testing effort required Improved productivity in the organization Minimal development cost Delivery of the product or a part of the product is according to the agreed upon schedule To achieve the above quality factors following are some of the quality assurance practices being adopted in various software development process models: Refactoring of Code:   It is a process of mak...

Peer review of a given research paper highlights its strength and its weaknesses in terms of the quality of the research paper written. The ways of writing reviews for a research paper discussed in this blog are among the most common methods adopted for peer reviews. When writing a review for any given research paper following are the questions to be answered: How sound is the research design? What do we now know that we did not know before? What can we do now that we could not do before? Are the reported conclusions generalized? What is the most questionable issue of the paper? Why is the experience not very representative? How sound is the solution? What is the next step to take? Whose goals are served or helped by this? Why wouldn't I use the same approach? Another method adopted for writing a review of a given research paper is rather simple and requires less effort. This method contains the following sections to be answered: Summary:  This section summarizes...