Code clones are generally considered harmful in software development, and the predominant approach is to try to eliminate them through refactoring. However, recent research has pr...
Embedded systems have several characteristics, such as application specific needs, real-time constraints and intrinsic embedded concerns (i.e. energy consumption), which hinder th...
Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Marco A. Wehrmeister, ...
This paper summarizes an approach to support evolution of software models by means of a transformation catalogue. These transformations treat UML class diagram models, OCL constrai...
Problem frames provide a means of analyzing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside of the computer, helping the developer to focus on the problem domain, inste...
Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Robin C. Laney, Bash...
Six Sigma has been adopted by many software development organizations to identify problems in software projects and processes, find optimal solutions for the identified problems, ...
Zhedan Pan, Hyuncheol Park, Jongmoon Baik, Ho-Jin ...