We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...
The event driven paradigm is ubiquitous in modern software. Many texts introduce events when discussing graphical user interfaces, but the event paradigm extends well beyond that ...
This paper describes the role of requirements discovery during the testing of a safety-critical software system. Analysis of problem reports generated by the integration and syste...
In the design of embedded systems-on-chip, the success of a product generation depends on the exibility to accommodate future design changes. This requirement in uences the hardwa...
Frederik Vermeulen, Francky Catthoor, Diederik Ver...