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ISESE
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Conducting On-line Surveys in Software Engineering
One purpose of empirical software engineering is to enable an understanding of factors that influence software development. Surveys are an appropriate empirical strategy to gather...
Teade Punter, Marcus Ciolkowski, Bernd G. Freimut,...
SCAM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework for Studying Clones In Large Software Systems
Clones are code segments that have been created by copying-and-pasting from other code segments. Clones occur often in large software systems. It is reported that 5 to 50% of the ...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Workshop on Software Technologies for Ultra-Large Scale Systems
Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
From Z to BON/Eiffel
It is shown how to make a transition from the Z formal notation [3] to the Business Object Notation (BON) [4]. It is demonstrated that BON has the expressive power of Z, with the ...
Richard F. Paige, Jonathan S. Ostroff
ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A Practical Method for Verifying Event-Driven Software
Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...
Gerard J. Holzmann, Margaret H. Smith