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The business world is tremendously changing with the myriad of activities to be carried out on a daily basis. This, thus, inculminates in proliferation of high volumes of data which according to various observations and reports are growing at an alarming rate of 100% every two years, which equivocally was evidenced on the fact that 80% of data generated were dormant and even more pitiful unused 90 days after its creation. But, today, with the enormous challenges in the business world, information has become so dynamic, critical and vital as the engine that propels lives of all business activities and must be available as and at when due to avert business extinction. This is very important because in timecritical projects, task schedules; responsibilities have to be maintained in such manner to ascertain information accessibility to the various disciplines in the project so as to keep the project on course. Moreover, to control such an enormous explosion of data, business organizations need a onestop Software Based Solution that is capable to effectively and efficiently manage the three vital aspects of business resourcesdocument, content and enterprise. It is, in view of this, that this paper, with its accompanying web-based software-SOD Business Platform, thus, referred to as SUNX ODU Business Platform, was intended to provide a reliable but allencompassing cost-effective and easily accessible 3-Tier Framework Web application for managing content, document and enterprise resources by employing industrial standard with best practices in web-based application development for all business organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, software engineering relies and focuses on issues relatively with well-established software development approaches and software process improvement. There is lack of skill that guides students with the knowledge of developing quality software products that meet certain standard in software industry. As a result, software products were being produced and delivered with bugs and complaints were reported that software quality degraded gradually. Previous study indicated that code analysis and testing software alone could not guarantee the quality of the product. Apart from the increase of software complexity, not performing the best software engineering practices was another major cause of software failure. In order to produce good quality software products, the practices need to be highlighted from technical aspects and non-technical aspects such as people, environment and project constraints. To meet the challenges in quality software product, current education in software engineering must aligned with the software quality and certification models. This paper outlines the rationale and method for designing a new quality and certification skill in software engineering curriculum together with the challenges in meeting the needs from industries through alignment of the new curriculum. It presents the new topics of user-centred software certification processes, development of user and management skills in certification and continuous improvement in certification which might be included and needed in a software engineering curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Defect prediction models are significantly beneficial for software systems, where testing experts need to focus their attention and resources on problematic areas in the software under development. In this paper we find the relation between object oriented metrics and fault proneness using logistic regression method. The results are analyzed using open source software. The performance of the predicted models is evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. The results show that Area under Curve (calculated by ROC analysis) of the predicted model is 0.829. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]