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Background: Test quality is a prerequisite for achieving production system quality. While the concept of quality is multidimensional, most of the effort in testing context hasbeen channelled towards measuring test effectiveness. Objective: While effectiveness of tests is certainly important, we aim to identify a core list of testing principles that also address other quality facets of testing, and...
In many countries, higher education is financed mainly through state grants. Traditionally, universities have autonomous status and the right to carry out their self-chosen policy. The autonomy and independence of universities have formed the cornerstone of their existence. In recent years there is a rising interest in monitoring the effectiveness of academic institutions. On the one hand, this interest...
This paper aims at investigating the relationships between the adoption of open innovation by companies and their context features, internal R&D, and financial performances. Two proxies for openness—variety and intensity—are defined, and six hypotheses are formulated and tested on a sample of 68 worldwide top R&D spending pharmaceutical companies. The period of 2008–2012 was analyzed for a...
Abstract -- Background: Most of the experiments in software engineering (SE) employ students as subjects. This raises concerns about the realism of the results acquired through students and adaptability of the results to software industry. Aim: We compare students and professionals to understand how well students represent professionals as experimental subjects in SE research. Method: The comparison...
In this paper we introduce the concept of a “dependency profile”, a system level metric aimed at quantifying the level of encapsulation and independence within a system. We verify that these profiles are suitable to be used in an evaluation context by inspecting the dependency profiles for a repository of almost 100 systems. Furthermore we outline the steps we are taking to validate the usefulness...
In this study, we proposed a set of constructs and used it to assess the effects of ICT on e-commerce migration-migrating toward internet-based e-commerce at firm level. We examined the validity of the instrument in terms of the relationships to e-commerce migration with data from 156 firms in China. A series of hypotheses were designed and tested, and the drivers and their contributions to e-commerce...
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