Abstract. The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) tool supports the syntactic analysis, type checking, consistency checking, and dynamic validation of invariants and pre-/pos...
Wuliang Sun, Eunjee Song, Paul C. Grabow, Devon M....
Application performance tuning is a complex process that requires assembling various types of information and correlating it with source code to pinpoint the causes of performance...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B....
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
Despite the importance of analytical tools to organizations, there are challenges that should be tackled in order to leverage the impact of those tools in the decision making proc...
Denilson Sell, Liliana Cabral, Enrico Motta, John ...
After a component based system is developed, it has to be deployed into a target environment. As the system becomes much larger and more complex and the environment becomes open an...
Ling Lan, Gang Huang, Liya Ma, Meng Wang, Hong Mei...