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Izzat Alsmadi

Izzat Mahmoud Alsmadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Yarmouk University in Jordan. He obtained his Ph.D degree in Software Engineering from NDSU (USA). His second Master’s is in Software Engineering from NDSU (USA) and his first Master’s is in CIS from University of Phoenix (USA). He had B.sc degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Mutah University in Jordan. Before joining Yarmouk University he worked for several years in several companies and institutions in Jordan, USA, and UAE. His research interests include: software engineering, software testing, e-learning, software metrics, and formal methods.

Publications

Authentication Mechanisms for E-Voting

The e-government paradigm became an essential path for governments to reach citizens and businesses and to improve service and public performance. One of the important tools used...

Toward Agile Interactive Software Development Process Models for Crowd Source Projects

Typical traditional software development models are initially designed for company-style software project teams. They also assume a typical software project that has somewhat...

Website Performance Measurement: Process and Product Metrics

Some tasks will be easier to implement and test, and others will either be un-applicable or difficult to test and implement in comparison with testing in traditional software...

How Much Automation can be done in Testing?

It is widely acknowledged that software testing stage is a stage in the software project that is time and resources’ consuming. In addition, this stage comes late in the project...

Preface

This Preface is included in the book Knowledge-Based Processes in Software Development.

Lean Development: A Tool for Knowledge Management in Software Development Process

Software development is a complex activity, which is human intensive in nature. In order to build quality software systems, organizations need to follow mature software...

Website Performance Measurement: Process and Product Metrics

Some tasks will be easier to implement and test, and others will either be un-applicable or difficult to test and implement in comparison with testing in traditional software...

Authentication Mechanisms for E-Voting

The e-government paradigm became an essential path for governments to reach citizens and businesses and to improve service and public performance. One of the important tools used...

Software Development Methodologies for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is recently taking a significant focus in the information technology fields as a possible future trend for how computer services and applications can be provided...

Toward Agile Interactive Software Development Process Models for Crowd Source Projects

Typical traditional software development models are initially designed for company-style software project teams. They also assume a typical software project that has somewhat...

The Effect of Stemming on Arabic Text Classification: An Empirical Study

The information world is rich of documents in different formats or applications, such as databases, digital libraries, and the Web. Text classification is used for aiding search...

Advanced Automated Software Testing: Frameworks for Refined Practice

Software testing is needed to assess the quality of developed software. However, it consumes a critical amount of time and resources, often delaying the software release date and...

How Much Automation can be Done in Testing?

It is widely acknowledged that software testing stage is a stage in the software project that is time and resources’ consuming. In addition, this stage comes late in the project...

The Automatic Evaluation of Website Metrics and State

This paper focuses on studying website structural and related metrics that can be used as indicators of the complexity of the website and predict maintainability requirements....

A Conceptual Organization for Websites Metrics and E-Government Websites: A Case Study

E-government websites contain sensitive and important information where security and reliability are crucial. However, due to the large number of visitors, they are expected to...

The Effect of Stemming on Arabic Text Classification: An Empirical Study

The information world is rich of documents in different formats or applications, such as databases, digital libraries, and the Web. Text classification is used for aiding search...

The Automatic Evaluation of Website Metrics and State

This paper focuses on studying website structural and related metrics that can be used as indicators of the complexity of the website and predict maintainability requirements....