The milestones of the history of software development are paradigm shifts. Each paradigm brought its own features and new ways of composing them to assemble software systems. Unde...
As modern microprocessors employ deeper pipelines and issue multiple instructions per cycle, they are becoming increasingly dependent on accurate branch prediction. Because hardwa...
The evolution of software systems over many years often leads to unnecessarily complex and in exible designs which in turn lead to a huge amount of e ort for enhancements and main...
Reuse is an important topic in software engineering as it promises advantages like faster time-to-market and cost reduction. Reuse s on an abstract level is more beneficial than o...
Andreas Billig, Susanne Busse, Andreas Leicher, J&...
—Much of modern software development consists of building on older changes. Older periods provide the structure (e.g., functions and data types) on which changes in future period...