Quality Of Development Process Research Articles

Reporting guidelines for traditional Chinese medicine could be improved: a cross-sectional study

ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to identify available reporting guidelines for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), delineate their fundamental characteristics, assess the scientific rigor of their development process, and evaluate their dissemination. Study Design and SettingA search was conducted in Medline (via PubMed), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), SinoMed, WANFANG DATA, and the EQUATOR Network to identify TCM reporting guidelines. A preprepared Excel database was used to extract information on the basic characteristics, development process, and dissemination information. The development process quality of TCM reporting guidelines was assessed by evaluating their compliance with the Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines (GDHRRG). The extent of dissemination of these guidelines was analyzed by examining the number of citations received. ResultsA total of 26 reporting guidelines for TCM were obtained from 20 academic journals, with 61.5% of them published in English journals. Among the guidelines, 14 (53.8%) were registered in the EQUATOR Network. On average, the compliance rate of GDHRRG guidelines was reported to be 63.3% ranging from 22.2% to 94.4%. Three steps showed poor compliance, namely guideline endorsement (23.1%), translated guidelines (19.2%), and developing a publication strategy (19.2%). Furthermore, the compliance rate of GDHRRG guidelines published in English journals was higher than that in Chinese journals. In terms of the dissemination, 15.4% of the guidelines had been cited over 100 times, while 73.1% had been cited less than 50 times. ConclusionThe development of TCM reporting guidelines still has limitations in terms of regarding scientific rigor and follow-up dissemination. Therefore, it is important to ensure adherence to the scientific process in the development of TCM reporting guidelines and to strengthen their promotion, dissemination, and implementation.

Factors Influencing the Software Development Process in Small Scale Industries

Software development is a complex process which is divided into many phases. According to the software type and industries the development process is restructured. During the entire development what are the main factors which is influencing the process and affecting the quality. The main objective of this study is to focus on factors influencing the development process and how it affects the small scale industries after coming in to the real practice.
 Entire Software development is a layered process in which different factors are responsible to get the best products. This paper is focused on different technical and non-technical influencing factors which give major impact on the software quality. With influencing factors, their applicability in small scale industries also studied.
 Three important technical factors i.e. SDLC model and its principles, Cost estimation and Risk parameter whereas two important influencing factors in non-technical.i.e. success factors and environmental factors. Non-technical factors more influencing than technical factors. 
 All technical and non-technical factors have their own role but to apply all these quality parameters in small scale industries we need to make them more easy for their applicability. If quality development process and its parameters are tuned to easy and affordable level more businessmen will shift from manual working environment to the digital working environment.

Model reproduction of non-equilibrium thermodynamics principles as a means to provide software self-development

Further evolution of technologies in material sciences, hardware and software demands reproduction of self-organization as a manifestation of non-equilibrium thermodynamics principles in new artificial environment. This is especially actual for software engineering, where reproduction of non-equilibrium thermodynamics principles will allow enhancing speed and quality of development process. In this article we reveal, list and analyze principles to be reproduced in artificial systems to provide capabilities for self-development, self-healing and self-improvement. It is shown that self-development process is impossible without reproducing the metaphor of electric charge with its abilities for attraction and repulsion. But this metaphor is usually avoided in computer models. We propose and consider a method to reproduce the metaphor of electric charge in computer models by means of UNIX/Linux operating system tools. The obtained results provide the basis to establish an artificial physics, a new research area dedicated to adequate reproduction of principles of physics in the artificial environment of computer models.

Measuring the Quality of the Development Process Academic System with E-GQM Method

In a software development project, aspects of software quality are fundamental; all stakeholders expect high-quality software. To ensure the quality of software products, it is necessary to ensure the software quality process. A software process is essential to be assessed from their quality. In the software development process, the developer needs guidance in carrying out every aspect of it. The goals to achieve and the procedure to measure for each aspect's goals performance must be determined. One method that can be used is the Extended Goal Question Metric method. This method determines what aspects must be achieved for each development process. A few goals to measure are defined for each aspect. For each goal, one or more goals determine one or more relevant questions. For each question, an appropriate metric is  determined. The next step is mapping between G to Q and Q to M. The measurement was conducted by calculating the goal value obtained from the metric calculation. From this metric, each goal's value could be obtained, whether it is achieved or not. The tests were carried out on the software process to develop the academic Directorate of Technology and Information System Development of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya, Indonesia. Each goal's value exceeded 0.51 (for a scale of 0-1), which achieved the Software development process's quality. The total average score was 0.889.

Analisis Mutu (Input Proses Output) Pendidikan di Lembaga Pendidikan MTs Assalam Kota Mataram Nusa Tenggara Barat

The role of the principal in managing an educational institution must be able to think about three important things, namely Input-Process-Output, these three things must be managed optimally to get quality and quality grades. Teachers and students are an important part of educational institutions. So from that the principal needs to streamline the process of all existing programs. The MTs Assalam educational institution, Mataram City, NTB is a relatively new educational institution because it officially became an educational institution legally in 2019, but students and students there have shown enthusiasm and high motivation to learn whether it is in implementing programs implemented in Islamic boarding schools or at schools They are also active in several extra activities such as tahfidz, student council, scouting, silat and recitation, the policy that is implemented is that it requires all students and students to live in the hut and free food and housing fees. This study aims to analyze in depth the quality and quality (input, process, and output) that exist in the MTs Assalam educational institution, Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara. This research is a qualitative research with a phenomenological research type. The research instruments used were documentation and observation, data analysis used in this study was data reduction, data presentation and data verification. The results showed that the system of quality development process and the quality of students there is by compulsory boarding and following the rules of the boarding school, collaborating with lodges, collaborating with the community, holding recitations for the community, always coordinating with the santri guardians and building a network of partners with offices - government offices.

Continuing participatory research beyond the end of projects: participatory quality development in municipal health promotion

The limited timeframes of participatory health research (PHR) studies make it difficult to achieve the desired specific social changes through the projects. This is particularly true for the promotion of health equity in municipal settings. This article examines how participatory quality development (PQE) approaches can complement PGF in order to implement participation as aquality criterion in health promotion and to contribute to the sustainability of research results.Based on the structure and course of two participatory research projects on integrated municipal health promotion, quality development processes with older people and parents of preschool children are described.Structural and process design contribute significantly to the transfer of research results into practice and beyond the end of the project. In their structure and by continuously involving local partners and stakeholders, projects must ensure that the principles of participatory quality development are implemented in processes from the very beginning.Participation as aquality criterion in health promotion is now well established. However, there is adeficit in the implementation of this claim. PGF and PQE consistently implement the criterion but place high demands on structure and process design. It is recommended that participation principles should be anchored in cooperation agreements in the municipal partnerships and supportive frameworks for participatory approaches should be continuously developed.

PRACTICAL QUALITY ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

The success of any project is determined by its ability to meet the needs of the consumer, and therefore ensuring a high level of quality is a necessary task of any production, including software engineering. Insufficient quality of the created software requires many IT-organizations, up to 70% of the budget of the information system to reserve for the maintenance stage, with up to 60% of all software modifications performed to eliminate errors, and only the remaining 40% - to correct software within the business process, improvement certain indicators of software quality, or to prevent potential problems. Software quality is a complex concept. Standards highlight the quality of development processes, internal and external quality of the software product, the quality of the software product at the stage of use. For each of the components of quality can be called a set of metrics that determine the quality of the software product. The resulting structure is called the software quality model. Software metrics are a measure that allows you to get the numerical value of a property of software or its specifications, as well as the method of its calculation. Metrics allow you to get numeric values for each property of the software or its specifications. Of particular interest are software complexity metrics. Complexity is an important factor on which other parameters of software quality depend, such as accuracy, correctness, reliability, convenience of support. The existence of methods and algorithms for automatic calculation of software complexity metrics using software allows you to get a comprehensive formal report on the quality of software in a short time. This allows for objective monitoring of the quality of software throughout the project life cycle, make adjustments to the project plan, as well as make timely decisions about the need for refactoring.

Measuring and improving the quality of development processes based on usability and accessibility

Measurement of both usability and accessibility is an important concern in software development today. However, while a great amount of attention has been paid to product-based measurement, little attention has been paid to the process-based one. Our research is based on the following concerns: on the one hand, we detect a lack of previous work focusing on usability and accessibility together in order to evaluate process quality. On the other hand, it is possible to propose a model for evaluating the capability maturity considering usability and accessibility practices. Starting with the motivation and problem description, we have proposed conceptual hypotheses to conduct our research. This way, this paper describes the conception of a capability maturity model named MODECUA, which provides a framework to evaluate development processes centered on usability and accessibility. Together with a detailed description of MODECUA, we provide a study case to validate our approach. MODECUA includes seven improved processes that we have contributed with eight new activities, 11 adapted activities and processes, and 9 renamed activities. In addition, we have integrated 127 new work products. In addition, an evaluation accomplished in a real company has provided relevant results concerning the application of our approach. Our approach helps to determine the capability maturity of a development process focused on usability and accessibility. It ensures that software products are usable and accessible, increasing user satisfaction and psychological wellness. Besides, it promotes a user-centered approach in the organization, facilitating audits and minimizing costs, time and effort.

DEVOPS PROCESS MODEL ADOPTION IN SAUDI ARABIA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Many software development organizations are starting adopting the Development-Operation (DevOps) to foster better collaboration between development and operations teams, in order to improve the software development process quality and efficiency; therefore, it’s very important to measure the adoption of the DevOps for these organizations. Maturity models are used as a tool to assess the effectiveness of organizational processes on adopting certain practices and identify what capabilities they need to acquire next in order to improve their performance and reach higher maturity level. However, there is few DevOps maturity models recently have been emerged as means to assess DevOps adopted practices. This research aims to conduct an empirical field study to assess the DevOps adoption level in seven Saudi organizations using one of the published DevOps maturity models namely Bucena model. The findings show that the Saudi organizations are ranging from the third level (Defined) to the fourth level (Managed) in their adoption. This shows promise in the Saudi organization adoption of DevOps as no organization of the surveyed ones recorded in lower levels.

Educación Física de calidad: ¿De dónde surge este planteamiento?

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), ha generado en los últimos años orientaciones en torno a la Educación Física de Calidad (en adelante EFC), con el objeto de enfatizar en las naciones el valor de la práctica sistemática y su presencia en el currículo educativo. Las discusiones acerca de la EFC vienen desarrollándose desde hace más de 15 años. En el reporte de la UNESCO (2005) acerca de la calidad de la Educación Física se destacó la importancia de áreas esenciales, tales como la eficiencia del desarrollo de un estilo de vida activo, aspectos de salud, la calidad del crecimiento estudiantil en aspectos relacionados con valores y actitudes hacia el deporte y la actividad física, hábito de la práctica regular de ejercicios y preocupación acerca de su eficiencia para enfrentar los retos como los temas de género, educación inclusiva, aspectos raciales y limitaciones religiosas, tradicionales o culturales. El proceso del desarrollo con calidad no está restringido al desarrollo curricular o métodos de formación, también se relaciona con la construcción del ambiente, políticas, formación y desarrollo del personal. Es decir, involucra un estado holístico de características esenciales que permita a la Educación Física alcanzar su libertad en el accionar. En este trabajo, se presenta una revisión de manera descriptiva de lo que se ha venido produciendo a partir de la UNESCO en materia de la EFC y su aplicación en algunas naciones.

Improving the methodological foundations for assessing the achievement of strategic plans for regional development

The results of a generalized analysis of the assessment of the development of socio-economic systemsof the region, carried out according to the documents of strategies and development plans in comparisonwith the actual achievements of the development strategies of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The analysis wascarried out according to statistical reporting and analytical reports on the results of the implementation ofregional development projects and analytical notes of experts. The system failure of these projects is shown.Among the factors influencing the state, the lack of timely, high-quality and full assessment of the results ofthe development processes was identified. The analysis used expert and statistical information indicators ofperformance, their total and index comparison, estimates of the dynamics of changes and integral estimates.and index comparisons, the dynamics of their changes without analyzing the causes of negative deviationsare used. It is determined that there is no single information and analytical basis for the methodologicalassessment of results. Based on the processing of scientific, legislative sources and practical information onthe selection and justification of development strategies and plans, the results of a generalized analysis ofthe state of socio-economic development and the implementation of project activities in the Dnipropetrovskregion are presented. It is noted that the methodological tools of analysis use only expert and statisticalindicators, their total and index comparisons and the dynamics of changes without analyzing the causes ofnegative deviations. There is no single information base for the assessment methodology. The necessity ofcombining the implementation of one-time and episodic measures to assess the state, quality and effectivenessof development processes with the systematic implementation of analytical measures is shown. Attention isdrawn to the need to increase the competencies of persons carrying out analysis and assessment of the state ofdevelopment processes and formulate conclusions on the development of territorial communities. It is provedthat qualitative assessment should be considered as the main tool to increase managerial impact on the impactof development processes by creating a single integrated information-analytical assessment system usingmathematical models, computer technologies and their software.

Industrial Evaluation of a Toolkit of Methods for Engineering Knowledge Management of Simulations

Simulations offer the potential of improving product and development process quality. However, a lack of overview of existing simulation methods and of documentation may make it difficult to apply them efficiently along the entire development process. To tackle this problem, a knowledge-based framework was developed to enhance simulation knowledge management, give an overview over all possible simulations, and provide means to standardize simulation processes for experts. This paper presents the first industrial evaluation of the framework concept by two workshops. The results exhibit a wide interest in the knowledge-based framework in industry and demonstrate aspects for further industrial application. Critical points particularly include an intuitive user interface and the integration into the specific IT environment of a company, which will be the next steps for evaluating the system in industrial conditions.

Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

Organizations are moving their workforce to guarantee matters of trade and profit where accounts are expected to be less expensive and provide better quality products with the accessibility of skilled labor. With the evident benefits, distributed teams often face challenges with reliable and efficient communication coordination patterns that lead towards project failure. In the rapidly growing software industry, it becomes critical for any business to have better management activities to acquire right processes and practices. Agile methods are considered as a remedy for mitigating distributed teams’ challenges, with their consistent focus on communication. Here, we intend to propose a tailored Scrum based solution for distributed teams that empowers anticipated communication and coordination throughout the development process. In the first phase of framework development we have evaluated the state of agile practices from both literature and industry; based on collected evidence and suggestive guidelines a scrum based agile framework was formulated. The Scrum is a project management method in Agile Methods family. Scrum is an iterative process that asks for incremental development of the product, includes cross functional development and testing teams. Evaluation results show that the proposed framework contributes positively to improve development process quality. We have performed theoretical as well as empirical evaluation to validate proposed framework. We have eight project managing rising aspects in DSD (Distributed Software Development) to evaluate the proposed framework.

A collegial quality development process for identifying and addressing barriers to improving teaching

ABSTRACTChallenges to ensuring teaching quality in higher education give ongoing impetus to invest in teaching quality improvement. While a significant body of literature has recognised challenges faced by academics seeking to improve teaching practices, processes for developing constructive responses to identified barriers have attracted less attention. A synthesis of literature on barriers to improvement of teaching is presented and used as a framework to assist an identification of barriers. This article reports on a national Australian trial of a collegial quality development process aimed at supporting academics to both identify and surmount barriers to improving teaching quality. Evidence of the nature and extent of barriers to improving teaching was collated from data provided by 28 academics across five Australian universities. Adopting a thematic analysis approach, a broad range of perceived barriers were identified, largely consistent with barrier categories defined in the extant literature internationally. Findings reveal that, with the support of peers, participants were able to implement effective solutions to their identified barriers to improving teaching quality. This article provides a synthesis of current barriers to improve teaching and offers a collegial quality development process as a strategy to overcome these barriers.

A Patient-Centered Mobile Health System That Supports Asthma Self-Management (breathe): Design, Development, and Utilization.

BackgroundUncontrolled asthma poses substantial negative personal and health system impacts. Web-based technologies, including smartphones, are novel means to enable evidence-based care and improve patient outcomes.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to design, develop, and assess the utilization of an asthma collaborative self-management (CSM) platform (breathe) using content based on international evidence-based clinical guidelines.MethodsWe designed and developed breathe as a Web-based mobile health (mHealth) platform accessible on smartphones, tablets, or desktop with user-centered design methods and International Organization for Standardization–certified quality development processes. Moreover, breathe was envisioned as a multifunctional, CSM mHealth platform, with content based on international clinical practice guidelines and compliant with national privacy and security specifications. The system enabled CSM (patient, provider, and breathe) and self-monitoring of asthma patients through (1) assessment of asthma control, (2) real-time access to a dynamic asthma action plan, (3) access to real-time environmental conditions, and (4) risk-reduction messaging. The data collection protocol collected user data for 12 months, with clinic visits at baseline and 6 and 12 months. Utilization outcomes included user interactions with the platform, user impressions, self-reported medication use, asthma symptom profile, reported peak flow measurement, and the delivery and impact of email reminders.ResultsWe enrolled 138 patients with a mean age of 45.3 years to receive the breathe intervention. Majority were female (100/138, 72.5%), had a smartphone (92/138, 66.7%), and had a mean Asthma Control Test score of 18.3 (SD 4.9). A majority reported that breathe helped in the management of their asthma. Moreover, breathe scored 71.1 (SD 18.9) on the System Usability Scale. Overall, 123 patients had complete usage analytics datasets. The platform sent 7.96 reminder emails per patient per week (pppw), patients accessed breathe 3.08 times, journaled symptoms 2.56 times, reported medication usage 0.30 times, and reported peak flow measurements 0.92 times pppw. Furthermore, breathe calculated patients’ action plan zone of control 2.72 times pppw, with patients being in the green (well-controlled) zone in 47.71% (8300/17,396) of the total calculations. Usage analysis showed that 67.5% (83/123) of the participants used the app at week 4 and only 57.7% (71/123) by week 45. Physician visits, email reminders, and aged 50 years and above were associated with higher utilization.ConclusionsIndividuals with asthma reported good usability and high satisfaction levels, reacted to breathe notifications, and had confidence in the platform’s assessment of asthma control. Strong utilization was seen at the intervention’s initiation, followed by a rapid reduction in use. Patient reminders, physician visits, and being aged 50 years and above were associated with higher utilization.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT01964469; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01964469

A novel under sampling strategy for efficient software defect analysis of skewed distributed data

The software quality development process is a continuous process which starts by identifying a reliable fault detection technique. The implementation of the effective fault detection technique depends on the properties of the dataset in terms of domain information, characteristics of input data, complexity, etc. The early detection of defective modules provide more time for the developers to allocate resources effectively to deliver the quality software in time. The class imbalance nature of the software defect datasets indicates that the existing techniques are unsuccessful for identifying all the defective modules. Misclassification of the defective modules in the software engineering datasets invites unexpected loses to the software developers. To classify the class imbalance software datasets in an efficient way, we have proposed a novel approach called as under sampling strategy. This proposed approach uses under sampling strategy to reduce the less prominent instances from majority subset. The experimental results confirm that the proposed approach can deliver more accuracy in predicting the modules which are error prone with less and simple rules.

Problems of evaluating development testing quality of missile prototypes in full-scale experiments at the development testing stage and ways of solving these problems

The paper analyses whether the volume of new generation missile testing is sufficient for a given development timescale. We consider development testing specifics for the new generation of missiles. The paper cites labour input estimates for debugging the software used in contemporary surface-to-air missiles. We present an approach to estimating missile design and development process quality according to a combination of indices, taking into account how urgent the problem under consideration is for a range of leading developers, as well as for the benefit of the customer.

THE INFLUENCE OF SELF-EFFICACY, OPTIMISM, HOPE, AND RESILIENCE ON WORK ENGAGEMENT WITH MEDIATOR VARIABLE OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT ON LECTURERS OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN SURAKARTA

One of human resources exerting an influence on the process of quality development in higher education institutions is lecturer. Lecturers play a role in realizing the purpose of national education (enhancing intellectual capacity of the life of nation, and developing quality of good and civilized Indonesian people). They can give contribution to higher education institutions if they make effective efforts and act in an appropriate manner (not only in terms of the quantity of efforts, but also the direction of the efforts), maintain good attitudes, attempt or intend to work, are supported by the institution for the sake of their success of performance. For that reason, it is important for lecturers to recognize their responsibility and performance, as well as to measure their efforts according to indicator of success. One way to improve organizational performance is by identifying the extent of lecturers’ work engagement. Several studies have examined such components of work engagement as self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience. The present research is intended to consider several psychological constructs related to self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience which influence work engagement by using mediator variable of perceived organizational support on lecturers of public higher education institutions in Surakarta. Samples include 393 lecturers of Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the application of Lisrel 8.70 program. The analysis results indicate that 1) the model is considered fit, 2) there is a significant influence of self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience on lecturers’ work engagement, and 3) perceived organization support presents as good mediator to connect the aforementioned variables.

Q-Rapids framework for advanced data analysis to improve rapid software development

The quality of software, in particular developed rapidly, is quite a challenge for businesses and IT-dependent societies. Therefore, the H2020 Q-Rapids project consortium develops processes and tools to meet this challenge and improve the quality of the software to meet end-users requirements and needs. In this paper, we focus on data analytics that helps software development companies evaluate the quality of the software. In fact, most software development teams use tools such as GitLab, SonarQube or JIRA (among others) to assess the basic characteristics and metrics of the developed software. In this paper, we propose the framework that gathers basic data from the mentioned tools, and processes the data further (e.g. using Apache Kafka, Kibana and Spark) to calculate more advanced metrics, product factors, indicators, and to find correlations between them. In this paper, we present the concept, the technical details, and the initial results of the advanced data analysis methodology. Furthermore, we provide discussion on how to use the system and show the future development directions. We have already implemented the system at software development SME and managed to find interesting characteristics and correlations about the software quality. The results, based on the real data, were interesting to the company product owners and team leaders, and more importantly helped them improve the software quality development process.

The Influence of Self-Efficacy, Optimism, Hope and Resilience on Work Engagement: Role of Perceived Organizational Support as Mediator

A bs t r act Lecturers have a significant influence on the process of quality development in higher education institutions, namely in fulfilling the targets of national education (enhancing intellectual capacity of the nation and developing civilized people). They can contribute to higher education institutions provided that they maintain effective efforts (in terms of quantity and direction), good attitudes, motivation to work and are supported by their institutions. Hence, it is crucial for lecturers to recognize their responsibility and performance, as well as measure their efforts according to the indicator of success. One way to improve organizational performance is by identifying the extent of lecturers’ work engagement. Several studies have examined such components of work engagement as self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience. The present study aims to consider several psychological constructs related to self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience which influence work engagement, using a mediator variable of perceived organizational support on lecturers of public higher education institutions in Surakarta. Samples include 393 lecturers of Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with the application of Lisrel 8.70 program. The analysis results indicate that 1) the model is considered fit, 2) there is a significant influence of self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience on lecturers’ work engagement, and 3) perceived organization support is a good mediator to connect the variables. Keywords: work engagement, perceived organizational support, self-efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience