iosr-JCE   Volume-2 ~ Issue-1

Abstract : CONTEXT – Global Software Development (GSD) is a modern software engineering paradigm adopted by many client organisations in developed countries to get high quality product at low cost in low wage countries. Production of high quality software is considered as one of the key factor in the rapid growth of GSD. However GSD projects have put new challenges to practitioners and researchers. In order to address these challenges Software Quality Metrics (SQMs) are frequently used in organisations to fabricate high quality products. OBJECTIVE - The objective of this SLR protocol is to identify and assess strengths and weaknesses of the existing SQMs used in GSD to assist vendor organisations in choosing appropriate SQMs for measuring software quality. METHOD – Systematic Literature Review (SLR) will be used for the identification of the existing SQMs in GSD. SLR is based on a structured protocol, and is therefore, different from ordinary review. EXPECTED OUTCOME – We have developed the SLR protocol and are currently in process of its implementation. The expected outcomes of this review will be the identification of different SQMs for GSD along with their SWOT analysis to assist vendor organisations in choosing appropriate SQMs at the right time to produce a high quality product.
Keywords - Software Quality Metrics, Global Software Development, Systematic Literature Review Protocol

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Abstract: Noises are the unwanted information in an image, so they should be removed before further processing. Existing methods consider histogram based analysis which is globally varied one. A modified statistical measured based automatic noise type recognition technique is proposed in this paper. This has 2 phases including training phase and testing phase. The key role involves deduction of noise samples using filters like wiener, lee, median and extracts the statistical measures like kurtosis and skewness from samples. Kurtosis and skewness values exhibit behavior based on noise type. By using the statistical information and trained data we can classify the type of noise. Finally the noise type is identified and corresponding filter is applied. Thus noise eliminated image would give the desirable results during further processing. Experimental results show that the method is capable of accurately classifying the types of noise.
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