Free and open source software (FOSS) differs from proprietary software. FOSS facilitates the design of various applications per the user's requirement. Web applications are not exceptional in this way. Web-based applications are mostly based on client server architecture. This article is an...

Mobile applications are popularly known as apps. Energy and battery-life are critical factors that enable the development and sustainability of apps on mobile devices. Application software developers need to consider the minimization of energy consumption along with the development and...

This study presents the significance of trust for the formation of an Open Source Software Development (OSSD) community. OSSD has various challenges that must be overcome for its successful operation. First is the development of a community, which requires a healthy community formation...

An accurate bug severity assessment is an important factor in bug fixing. Bugs are reported on the bug tracking system by different users with a fast speed. The size of software repositories is also increasing at an enormous rate. This increased size often has much uncertainty and...

The purpose of the article was to develop a methodology for evaluating performance of e-mail servers and to compare the performance of e-mail servers based on free software (freeware and open source software) with the performance of payment licensed e-mail servers, with an integrated focus. For...

Agile methodologies have gained wide acceptance for developing high-quality products with a quick and flexible approach. However, until now, the quality of the agile process has not been validated quantitatively. Quality being important for the software system, there is a need for measurement....

Maintainability is one of the most important quality attribute that affect the quality of software. There are four factors that affect the maintainability of software which are: analyzability, changeability, stability, and testability. Open source software (OSS) developed by collaborative work...

Test cases do not have the same importance when used to detect faults in software; therefore, it is more efficient to test the system with the test cases that have the ability to detect the faults. This research proposes a new framework that combines data mining techniques to prioritize the test...

Fault prone components in open source software leads to huge loss and inadvertent effects if not properly identified and rigorously tested. Most of the reported studies in the literature have applied design metrics alone, to identify such critical components. But in reality, some of the...

Code clones are copied fragments that occur at different levels of abstraction and may have different origins in a software system. This article presents an approach which shows the significant parts of source code. Further, by using significant parts of a source code, a control flow graph can...