To assure dependable onboard evolution, we have developed a methodology called guarded software upgrading (GSU). In this paper, we focus on a low-cost approach to error containmen...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Cha...
The feature list of modern IDEs is steadily growing and mastering these tools becomes more and more demanding, especially for novice programmers. Despite their remarkable capabili...
Software development can be thought of as the evolution act requirements into a concrete software system. The evolution, achieved through a successive series of elaborations and r...
Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, D. Scott McCricka...
This paper proposes a coprocessor architecture to speed up hardware evolution. It is designed to be implemented in an FPGA with an integrated microprocessor core. The coprocessor r...
Tillmann Schmitz, Steffen G. Hohmann, Karlheinz Me...
Recent research showed that the majority of compatibility-breaking changes in a component-based, object-oriented software system are refactorings [5]. The software updating proces...