Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelko...
The Freebsd, gnu/Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems have kernels that provide comparable facilities. Interestingly, their code bases share almost no common parts, while...
As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service’s discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS behaviors. For service selection ...
The shapes of forests of inheritance trees can affect the amount of code reuse in an object-oriented system. Designers can benefit from knowing how structuring decisions affect r...
In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini