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IWPC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding and Auditing the Licensing of Open Source Software Distributions
—Free and open source software (FOSS) is often distributed in binary packages, sometimes part of GNU/Linux operating system distributions, or part of products distributed/sold to...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ju...
ICSM
1998
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Investigating Maintenance Processes in a Framework-Based Environment
1 The empirical study described in this paper focuses on the effectiveness of maintenance processes in an environment in which a repository of potential sources of reuse exists, e....
Victor R. Basili, Filippo Lanubile, Forrest Shull
ICSM
1997
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
MORALE. Mission ORiented Architectural Legacy Evolution
Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORA...
Gregory D. Abowd, Ashok K. Goel, Dean F. Jerding, ...
FTRTFT
1998
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the Need for Practical Formal Methods
A controversial issue in the formal methods community is the degree to which mathematical sophistication and theorem proving skills should be needed to apply a formal method. A fun...
Constance L. Heitmeyer
WOSP
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Early performance testing of distributed software applications
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Giovanni Denaro, Andrea Polini, Wolfgang Emmerich