Increasingly, high-assurance applications rely on autonomic systems to respond to changes in their environment. The inherent uncertainty present in the environment of autonomic sy...
Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
— One of the main tasks software testing involves is the generation of the test inputs to be used during the test. Due to its expensive cost, the automation of this task has beco...
In this paper, we present a solution that allows systems to remain active while they are evolving. Our approach goes out from the principle of separated concerns and has two steps....