This paper explores how software developers debug integrated systems, where they have little or no access to the source code of the third-party software the system is composed of....
Most current aspect composition mechanisms rely on syntactic references to the base modules or wildcard mechanisms quantifying over such syntactic references in pointcut expressio...
How do design decisions impact the quality of the resulting software? In an empirical study of 52 ECLIPSE plug-ins, we found that the software design as well as past failure histo...
An important focus of recent CBR research is on how to develop strategies for achieving compact, competent case-bases, as a way to improve the performance of CBR systems. However, ...
Researchers in the field of software engineering economics have associated team factors, such as team size and team experience, with productivity and quality. Since distributed and...