The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.T...The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.This paper proposes a research framework for predicting reliability of individual software entities as well as the whole Internet application.Characteristics of the Internet environment are comprehensively analyzed and several reliability prediction approaches are proposed.A prototype is implemented and practical use of the proposed framework is also demonstrated.展开更多
Mobile applications are being used in a great range of fields and application areas. As a result, many research fields have focused on the study and improvement of such devices. The current Smartphones are the best ex...Mobile applications are being used in a great range of fields and application areas. As a result, many research fields have focused on the study and improvement of such devices. The current Smartphones are the best example of the research and the evolution of these technologies. Moreover, the software design and development is progressively more focused on the user; finding and developing new mobile interaction models. In order to do so, knowing what kind of problems the users could have is vital to enhance a bad interaction design. Unfortunately, a good software quality evaluation takes more time than the companies can invest. The contribution revealed in this work is a new approach to quality testing methodology focused on mobile interactions and their context in use where external capturing tools, such as cameras, are suppressed and the evaluation environments are the same as the user will use the application. By this approach, the interactions can be captured without changing the context and consequently, the data will be more accurate, enabling the evaluation of the quality-in-use in real environments.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project No.61472338,61332010)Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(Project No. 2014A030313151)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China (No.415113)
文摘The open and dynamic environment of Internet computing demands new software reliability technologies.How to efficiently and effectively build highly reliable Internet applications becomes a critical research problem.This paper proposes a research framework for predicting reliability of individual software entities as well as the whole Internet application.Characteristics of the Internet environment are comprehensively analyzed and several reliability prediction approaches are proposed.A prototype is implemented and practical use of the proposed framework is also demonstrated.
文摘Mobile applications are being used in a great range of fields and application areas. As a result, many research fields have focused on the study and improvement of such devices. The current Smartphones are the best example of the research and the evolution of these technologies. Moreover, the software design and development is progressively more focused on the user; finding and developing new mobile interaction models. In order to do so, knowing what kind of problems the users could have is vital to enhance a bad interaction design. Unfortunately, a good software quality evaluation takes more time than the companies can invest. The contribution revealed in this work is a new approach to quality testing methodology focused on mobile interactions and their context in use where external capturing tools, such as cameras, are suppressed and the evaluation environments are the same as the user will use the application. By this approach, the interactions can be captured without changing the context and consequently, the data will be more accurate, enabling the evaluation of the quality-in-use in real environments.
