King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology

Mohammad Alshayeb

Lahouari Ghouti

Mahmood Niazi

Abdalrahman Awad Aburakhia

Ahmad Abdullatif

Sajjad Mahmood

Sami Zahran

Haris Mumtaz

Mohammed Misbhauddin

A method of prioritizing updates to third-party libraries for a mobile application includes obtaining a list of a plurality of third-party libraries used in the mobile application. The method further includes, for each third-party library of the plurality of third-party libraries, computing a set of third-party library metrics of a third-party library and computing a weight for each third-party library metric type of the set of third-party library metrics. The method further includes computing, for each third-party library of the plurality of third-party libraries, a ranking value of the third-party library using the set of third-party library metrics and the weights, and selecting, based on the ranking value of the plurality of third-party libraries, one or more third-party libraries to be updated.

Method to prioritize third-party software libraries updates

Methods and devices for improving security of a use case model are described. In accordance with the present disclosure, detection rules are applied to the use case model to detect bad smells. The use case model into an XML representation. The XML representation is refactored using the security bad smells to generate a refactored XML representation of the use case model. A behavior consistency verification processing is performed by processing the refactored use case models. Quality metrics of the refactored XML representation are generated before and after the refactoring. The quality metrics are compared to generate a quality improvement assessment of security for the use case model.

Refactoring to improve the security quality of use case models

Methods and apparatuses are provided for code refactoring. The method includes acquiring a code and identifying, using processing circuitry and based on a Markov decision process model, a refactoring sequence. The refactoring sequence includes a plurality of refactoring steps to be applied to the code. Further, the method includes refactoring, by the processing circuitry, the code according to the refactoring sequence.

Method and apparatus for generating a refactored code

Apparatus and methodologies for code refactoring

A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to objectively assess the quality of software products. The method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium relate to determining a product maturity level of one or more software products. The disclosure describes a method for acquiring product quality attributes of a software product. Each product quality attribute is assessed by one or more metric parameters which test the software product by mathematical or logical test methodologies. Once evaluated, the one or more metric parameters and the one or more product quality attributes may each be mapped to a capability level based on a capability scale. A maturity level may be mapped from the capability level of the capability level of the one or more product quality attributes to the software product to provide a quality assessment of the software product.

Method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media for the assessment of software products

The UML model integration and refactoring method steps include extending the metamodels, composing an integrated UML model derived from the extended metamodels, defining refactoring opportunities and transformation operations during the integrated UML composition, and applying a set of composite refactorings to remove an identified smell from the integrated UML model.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Alshayeb