The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptive. In order to ach...
Ayla Dantas, Joseph W. Yoder, Paulo Borba, Ralph E...
The testing of the performance of opportunistic communication protocols and applications is usually done through simulation as i) deployments are expensive and should be left to t...
Roberta Calegari, Mirco Musolesi, Franco Raimondi,...
Missing or imprecise requirements can lead stakeholders to make incorrect assumptions. A "Not a Problem" defect report (NaP) describes a software behavior that a stakeho...
Address translation often emerges as a critical performance bottleneck for virtualized systems and has recently been the impetus for hardware paging mechanisms. These mechanisms ap...
Giang Hoang, Chang Bae, Jack Lange, Lide Zhang, Pe...
According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial developmen...