Reliability is one of the crucial part of any software, that cannot be disregarded and hard to measured. When the probability of software failure occurrence decreases, software reliability increases. A model used to illustrate software reliability is known as Software Reliability Growth Models...

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...

This paper examines multiple contract design choices in the context of transaction and relational attributes and consequent ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs. It focuses on two understudied themes in the IT outsourcing literature. First, while the literature is predominantly concerned with...

A qualitative, grounded theory research was conducted to explore and deepen the understanding of how middle and low level managers can initialize and manage information technology (IT) outsourcing projects. The study involved 17 managers and leaders working in Ukraine in offshore software...

Major automotive manufacturers are launching new software aiming for brand survival and to compete in the market. The biggest challenge is to battle to be at the centre of people's digital life taking new dimension every day. Innovative software is designed and renewed every hour towards further...

When trying to attain the benefits of open source software (OSS), proprietary closed source software (PCSS) firms are struggling to adopt this radically different practice of software development. We approach these adoption challenges as a problem of gaining support for organizational...

"This book investigates emergent trends and research on innovative software platforms in mobile and cloud computing, featuring state-of-the-art software engineering methods, as well as new techniques being utilized in the field"--Provided by publisher.