Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Mission critical applications and legacy systems may be difficult to revise and rebuild, and yet it is sometimes desirable to retrofit their user interfaces with new collaborative...
Li-Te Cheng, Steven L. Rohall, John F. Patterson, ...
There is a general agreement among software engineering practitioners that software inspections are an important technique to achieve high software quality at a reasonable cost. H...
Lionel C. Briand, Bernd G. Freimut, Ferdinand Voll...
One of the main cost factors in software development is the detection and removal of defects. However, the relationships and influencing factors of the costs and revenues of defe...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...