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ANSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Swarm-based Active Tunable Routing for Overhead Reduction in Multiservice Networks
The explosive growth of multimedia and other bandwidth intensive applications has resulted a rapid increase in the size of the traffic loads that needs to be supported by modern n...
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Helen D. Karatza
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
/*icomment: bugs or bad comments?*/
Commenting source code has long been a common practice in software development. Compared to source code, comments are more direct, descriptive and easy-to-understand. Comments and...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Gopal Krishna, Yuanyuan Zhou
IWPSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Talking tests: an empirical assessment of the role of fit acceptance tests in clarifying requirements
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...
KBSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Feature Signatures of Evolving Programs
As programs evolve, their code increasingly becomes tangled by programmers and requirements. This mosaic quality complicates program comprehension and maintenance. Many of these a...
Daniel R. Licata, Christopher D. Harris, Shriram K...
WCRE
1995
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Pattern Matching for Design Concept Localization
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
Kostas Kontogiannis, Renato de Mori, Morris Bernst...