Abstract. We seek to distinguish Strategic design decisions (e.g., to adopt a programming paradigm, architectural style, CBSE standard or application framework) from tactical desig...
Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
A code clone represents a sequence of statements that are duplicated in multiple locations of a program. Clones often arise in source code as a result of multiple cut/paste operat...
As computer systems continue to become more powerful and comdo programs. High-level abstractions introduced to deal with complexity in large programs, while simplifying human reas...
Kevin J. Hoffman, Patrick Eugster, Suresh Jagannat...
Proving that particular methods within a code base are functionally pure--deterministic and side-effect free--would aid verification of security properties including function inve...
Matthew Finifter, Adrian Mettler, Naveen Sastry, D...