Contents: Foreword. General Chair's message. Conference Committee. Part 1. Invited papers. 1. Evolving and packaging reading technologies (V.R. Basili). 2. Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development (T. Furuyama, Y. Arai and K. Iio). 3. EC projects and efforts in the field of software quality (B. Lepape). 4. Verification and validation of knowledge based systems (M. Ayel). Part 11. Proces inprovement. 5. Process improvement through root cause analysis (G. Damele, G. Bazzana, F. Andreis, F. Aquilio, S. Arnoldi and E. Pessi). 6. A process improvement experiment through process modelling and technology (P. Coppola and P. Panaroni). 7. Process maturity-Growing older and wiser? Using Proces8 Advisor for process assessment (A. Bryand and J. Grogan). Part 111. Quality practices. 8. Software quality: Perceptions and practices in Hong Kong (J.M. Verner, T.T. Moores and A.R. Barrett). 9. Controlling sideeffects in maintenance (G. Canfora, G.A. Di Lucca and M. Tortorella). 10. The short but interesting life of smal1 software firms (M. Raffa, G. Zo110 and R. Caponi). Part IV. Software testing. ll. Static analysis of VHDL source code: The SAVE project (M. Msstretti, M.L. Bssi, R. Sarvello, M. Sturlesi and S. Tomasello). 12. Metrics and analyses in the test phase of large-scale software (E. Obara, T. Kawasaki, Y. Ookawa and N. Maeda). 13. Automated testing of safety requirements with the support of a deductive database (P. Asirelli, A. Bertolino and S. Gnesi). Part V. Numerical sssessment. 14. Poisson models for subprogram defect analysis (W.M. Evanco). 15. Early estimation of software reliability through dynamic analysis (A. WesslΓ©n and C. Wohlin). Part VI. Quality measurement. 16. Software quality clsssification model bssed on McCabe's complexity measure (R. Takahsshi).
- Combining knowledge and metrics to control software