On the Suitability of a Portfolio-Based Design Improvement Approach

Reinhold Plösch; Johannes Bräuer; Christian Körner; Matthias Saft

doi:10.1109/QRS.2018.00038

On the Suitability of a Portfolio-Based Design Improvement Approach

Reinhold Plösch
, Johannes Bräuer
, Christian Körner
, Matthias Saft

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

Abstract

The design debt metaphor tries to illustrate quality deficits in the design of a software and the impact thereof to the business value of the system. To pay off the debt, the literature offers various approaches for identifying and prioritizing these design flaws, but without proper support in aligning strategic improvement actions to the identified issues. This work addresses this challenge and examines the suitability of our proposed portfolio-based design assessment approach. Therefore, this investigation is conducted based on three case studies where the product source code was analyzed and assessed using our portfolio-based approach. As a result, the approach has proven to be able to recommend concrete and valuable design improvement actions that can be adapted to project constraints.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 16-20 2018
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	249-256
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781538677575
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS.2018.00038
Publication status	Published - 02 Aug 2018

Fields of science

202017 Embedded systems
102 Computer Sciences
102015 Information systems
102022 Software development
202022 Information technology
502032 Quality management
502050 Business informatics

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Management and Innovation

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On the Suitability of a Portfolio-Based Design Improvement Approach. / Plösch, Reinhold; Bräuer, Johannes; Körner, Christian et al.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 16-20 2018. IEEE, 2018. p. 249-256 8424976.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

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