| Title: | Software quality: how much does it matter? |
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| Authors: | ID Kokol, Peter (Author) |
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| Files: |  electronics-11-02485.pdf (1,74 MB)
MD5: B6D3AFA86CEE3AAF4CEB5092D8E3C117
 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2485
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.02 - Review Article |
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| Organization: | FERI - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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| Abstract: | Interconnected computers and software systems have become an indispensable part of
people’s lives in the period of digital transformation. Consequently, software quality research is
becoming more and more critical. There have been multiple attempts to synthesise knowledge
gained in software quality research; however, they were focused mainly on single aspects of software
quality and did not structure the knowledge holistically. To fill this gap, we harvested software
quality publications indexed in the Scopus bibliographic database. We analysed them using synthetic
content analysis which is a triangulation of bibliometrics and content analysis. The search resulted in
15,468 publications. The performance bibliometric analysis showed that the production of research
publications relating to software quality is currently following an exponential growth trend and that
the software quality research community is growing. The most productive country was the United
States, followed by China. The synthetic content analysis revealed that the published knowledge
could be structured into six themes, the most important being the themes regarding software quality
improvement by enhancing software engineering, advanced software testing and improved defect
and fault prediction with machine learning and data mining. |
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| Keywords: | software engineering, software quality, knowledge synthesis, bibliometrics, synthetic knowledge synthesis |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 06.07.2022 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 02.08.2022 |
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| Publication date: | 10.08.2022 |
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| Publisher: | MDPI AG |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | 11 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 11, iss. 16 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-92411  |
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| UDC: | 004.5 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2079-9292 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 118307075 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/electronics11162485 |
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| Copyright: | © 2022 by the author |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 07.04.2025 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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