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ISPW
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Feedback, evolution and software technology
A 1968 study of the software process led, inter alia, to the observation that the software process constitutes a feedback system. Attempts at its management and improvement must t...
M. M. Lehman
ISSTA
2004
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Covering arrays for efficient fault characterization in complex configuration spaces
—Many modern software systems are designed to be highly configurable so they can run on and be optimized for a wide variety of platforms and usage scenarios. Testing such systems...
Cemal Yilmaz, Myra B. Cohen, Adam A. Porter
JITECH
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Fixing the payment system at Alvalade XXI: a case on IT project risk management
This case describes the implementation and subsequent failure of an innovative system installed in the bars of Alvalade XXI, the recently built football stadium in Lisbon, Portuga...
Ramon O'Callaghan
MICRO
2008
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
SHARK: Architectural support for autonomic protection against stealth by rootkit exploits
Rootkits have become a growing concern in cyber-security. Typically, they exploit kernel vulnerabilities to gain root privileges of a system and conceal malware’s activities fro...
Vikas R. Vasisht, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Finding latent performance bugs in systems implementations
Robust distributed systems commonly employ high-level recovery mechanisms enabling the system to recover from a wide variety of problematic environmental conditions such as node f...
Charles Edwin Killian, Karthik Nagaraj, Salman Per...