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IWPSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Challenges in Software Evolution
Today’s information technology society increasingly relies on software at all levels. Nevertheless, software quality generally continues to fall short of expectations, and softw...
Tom Mens, Michel Wermelinger, Stéphane Duca...
COMPSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Design Structural Stability Metrics and Post-Release Defect Density: An Empirical Study
This paper empirically explores the correlations between a suite of structural stability metrics for object-oriented designs and post-release defect density. The investigated stab...
Mahmoud O. Elish, David C. Rine
RE
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Goal-Oriented Requirements Enginering: A Roundtrip from Research to Practice
The software industry is more than ever facing the challenge of delivering WYGIWYW software (What You Get Is What You Want). A well-structured document specifying adequate, comple...
Axel van Lamsweerde
IEE
2008
120views more  IEE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Software evolutionary dynamics modelled as the activity of an actor-network
The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
Paul Wernick, Tracy Hall, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
CSMR
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Object Evolution by Model Evolution
Claims concerning the maintainability of object oriented software usually refer to encapsulation and inheritance mechanisms. However, if objects are perceived only from the code l...
Roland Mittermeir, Helfried Pirker, Dominik Rauner...