Cyberattacks such as spear phishing and malspam pretending to be companies, institutes, and government officials are increasing and evolving. Malware has a variety of purposes, such as collecting personal information and illegal access to the system. New types of malware are increasing every day, and many malware programs spread all over the Internet, causing severe…

Insufficient information is often pointed out as one of the main problems with bug reports as most bugs are reported manually, they lack detailed information describing steps to reproduce the unexpected behavior, leading to increased time and effort for developers to reproduce and fix bugs. Current bug reporting systems lack support for self-hosted systems that…

The paper examines the company’s proprietary means for determining the quality of a software product and measuring its technical debt. The paper’s authors explain how a software product’s quality is directly correlated with the amount of varying technical debts that the end-users receive. All debts can be paid, and technical debt is no exception: one…

Software maintenance contributes the majority of software system life cycle costs. However, existing approaches with automated code analysis are limited by accuracy and scope. Using human-assessed methods or implementing quality standards are more comprehensive alternatives, but they are much more costly for smaller organizations, especially in open- source software projects. Instead, bugs are generally used…

Ethereum smart contract system has seen a steady adoption as it continues to support tens of thousands of contracts. This feature has evolved to give a practical shape to the ideas leading up to fractional ownership transfer, using advanced smart contracts such as ERC-981. However, alongside its numerous benefits, various risks arise with the actual…

The universally common mode of interaction is the human emotions. Thus, there are several advantages of automated recognition of human facial expressions. The primary objective of the proposed framework in this paper, is to classify a person’s facial expression into anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. Firstly, CLAHE is performed on the image…

Multitenancy isolation is a way of ensuring that the performance, stored data volume and access privileges required by one tenant and/or component does not affect other tenants and/or components. One of the conditions that can influence the varying degrees of isolation is when locking is enabled for a process or component that is being shared.…