Often efforts to change techniques or processes are met by "But its working, why change now?" Usually the impetous for change comes from someone who does not believe it ...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Dynamic software updates (DSU) are one of the top-most features requested by developers and users. As a result, DSU is already standard in many dynamic programming languages. But,...
Mario Pukall, Alexander Grebhahn, Reimar Schrö...
Abstract--In the past ten years, the software aging phenomenon has been systematically researched, and recognized by both academic, and industry communities as an important obstacl...
Rivalino Matias, Pedro Alberto Barbetta, Kishor S....
Classically, software deployment is a process consisting of building the software, packaging it for distribution, and installing it at the target site. This approach has two proble...