Studies have shown significant benefits of the use of Domain-Specific Languages. However, designing a DSL still seems to be an art, rather than a craft following a clear method...
Sjouke Mauw, Wouter T. Wiersma, Tim A. C. Willemse
Software Product Line (SPL) engineering allows designers to reason about an entire family of software applications, instead of a single product, with a strategic importance for the...
Mauro Caporuscio, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pellicci...
Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...
Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
Intuition suggests that random testing of object-oriented programs should exhibit a high difference in the number of defects detected by two different runs over the same amount of...
Ilinca Ciupa, Alexander Pretschner, Andreas Leitne...