—The actor programming model offers a promising model for developing reliable parallel and distributed code. Actors provide flexibility and scalability: local execution may be i...
Steven Lauterburg, Mirco Dotta, Darko Marinov, Gul...
—Software instrumentation is a key technique in many stages of the development process. It is of particular importance for debugging embedded systems. Instrumented programs produ...
The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known met...
Approximately 70% of the source code of a software system consists of identifiers. Hence, the names chosen as identifiers are of paramount importance for the readability of comp...
More than ¾ of large software projects suffer large cost and schedule overruns or fail outright. Deficits in project requirements cause more than half of these failures and overr...