Context Web application security is a main component of any web-based business. Web
applications are subject to attacks from different locations at various levels of scale and …

Computational Thinking represents a terminology that embraces the complex set of
reasoning processes that are held for problem stating and solving through a computational …

Plant species classification is crucial for biodiversity protection and conservation. Manual
classification is time-consuming, expensive, and requires experienced experts who are often …

Test-driven development (TDD) is based on formalizing a piece of functionality as a test,
implementing the functionality such that the test passes, and iterating the process. This …

Trust represents a key issue in building successful customer–supplier relationships. In this
sense, social software represents a powerful means for fostering trust by establishing a …

In software intensive products such as cars or telecom systems, software has traditionally
been associated with cost, and there has been no real perception of its value in relation to …

Case studies can help to validate claims that open source software development produces
higher quality software at lower cost than traditional commercial development. One problem …

Swarm-GAP is a heuristic that combines a swarm intelligence strategy with the generalized
assignment problem (GAP) method. This approach is especially appropriate when there are …

Recently the awareness of the importance of replicating studies has been growing in the
empirical software engineering community. The results of any one study cannot simply be …

Software quality can be defined as the customers' perception of how a system works.
Inspection is a method to monitor and control the quality throughout the development cycle …