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Metrics and Tools to Guide Design of Graphical User Interfaces
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
User interface design metrics assist developers evaluate interface designs in early phase before delivering the software to end users. This dissertation presents a metric-based tool called GUIEvaluator for evaluating the ...
Adapting Web Page Tables on Mobile Web Browsers: Results from Two Controlled Empirical Studies
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Displaying web page content in mobile screens is a challenging task and users often face difficulty retrieving the relevant data. It can force them to adopt a time-consuming hunt-and-peck strategy. Application of design ...
Investigating the Defect Patterns during the Software Development Projects
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
With the growing software industry and our dependency on complex software applications, it is vital that the software is free of faults. The objective of my study is to, identify and classify the most common type of defects ...
Analyzing Student Learning Outcomes in Programming Course Using Individual Study Vs. Pair Programming
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Pair programming has been common practice in the programming industry during last three decades, but only recently did it start to draw the attention as a teaching strategy. This paper investigates whether we should introduce ...
A New Coupling Metric: Combining Structural and Semantic Relationships
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Maintaining object-oriented software is problematic and expensive. Earlier research has revealed that complex relationships among object-oriented software entities are key reasons that make maintenance costly. Therefore, ...
Evaluating the Usefulness of Requirement Error Taxonomy as a Defect Prevention Technique: An Empirical Investigation
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Defect prevention techniques can be used during the creation of software artifacts to help developers create high-quality artifacts. The Requirement Error Taxonomy developed by Walia et al. [22, 23] helps focus developer’s ...
An Artificial Immune System Heuristic in a Smart Electrical Grid
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The immune system of the human body follows a process that is adaptive and learns via experience. Some algorithms are designed to take advantage of this process to determine solutions for complex problem domains. The ...
Smart Task Scheduling for a Truck Company
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The truck scheduling system is a web-based application which will facilitate online truck activities. The objective of the application is to provide the truck system with an automated computerized tool, which will be helpful ...
Simian Plus: A Mission Simulation Enhancement Toolkit
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) have the ability to execute missions that include detecting and destroying the targets. The Simian simulator developed at NDSU performs complex motion calculations for moment - moment flight ...
Petri Net Model for Smart Grid System
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The concept of a smart grid is to provide self-healing, reliable, economic, and environment friendly energy-saving, sustainable electricity services to the users including the freedom to choose and set priorities according ...