Quality assurance (QA) tasks, such as testing, profiling, and performance evaluation, have historically been done in-house on developer-generated workloads and regression suites. ...
Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Atif M. Mem...
An activity theory model and a mediating artifacts hierarchy were employed to help identify the needs for tools for customer support engineers who documented solutions to customer...
Patricia Collins, Shilpa Shukla, David F. Redmiles
In this case study, we describe our use of ECT, a tool intended to simplify the design and development of network-spanning applications. We have used ECT throughout the course of ...
Stefan Rennick Egglestone, Andy Boucher, Tom Rodde...
Interactive program analysis tools are often tailored to one particular representation of programs, making adaptation to a new language costly. One way to ease adaptability is to ...
James Hayes, William G. Griswold, Stuart Moskovics
Program comprehension tools are a valuable resource for navigating and understanding large software systems. Package explorers, fan-in / fan-out views, dependency graphs and cover...
R. Ian Bull, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Jean-Marie F...