A Tool for Improving Privacy in Software Development

Privacy is considered a necessary requirement for software development. It is necessary to understand how certain software vulnerabilities can create problems for organizations and individuals. In this context, privacy-oriented software development plays a primary role to reduce some problems that can arise simply from individuals’ interactions software applications, even when the data being processed is not directly linked to identifiable. The loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability at some point in the data processing, such as data theft by external attackers or the unauthorized access or use of data by employees., represent some types of cybersecurity-related privacy events. Therefore, this research work discusses the formalization of 5 key privacy elements (Privacy by Design Principles, Privacy Design Strategies, Privacy Pattern, Vulnerabilities and Context) in software development and presents a privacy tool that supports developers’ decisions to integrate privacy and security requirements in all software development phases

Software Renewal Projects Estimation Using Dynamic Calibration

Effort estimation is a long faced problem, but, in spite of the amount of research spent in this field, it still remains an open issue in the software engineering community. This is true especially in the case of renewal of legacy systems, where the current and well established approaches also fail. This paper presents an application of the method named Dynamic Calibration for effort estimation of renewal projects together with its experimental validation. The approach satisfies all the requirements of the estimation models. The results obtained applying dynamic calibration are compared with those obtained with a competitor method: estimation by analogy. The results are shown to be promising although further experimentation on field is needed. 1

Software Renewal Projects Estimation Using Dynamic Calibration

Effort estimation is a long faced problem, but, in spite of the amount of research spent in this field, it still remains an open issue in the software engineering community. This is true especially in the case of renewal of legacy systems, where the current and well established approaches also fail. This paper presents an application of the method named Dynamic Calibration for effort estimation of renewal projects together with its experimental validation. The approach satisfies all the requirements of the estimation models. The results obtained applying dynamic calibration are compared with those obtained with a competitor method: estimation by analogy. The results are shown to be promising although further experimentation on field is neede