In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
Ad-hoc networks of mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs represent a new and exciting distributed system architecture. Building distributed applications on such an architec...
Yang Ni, Ulrich Kremer, Adrian Stere, Liviu Iftode
Real-time systems have reached a level of complexity beyond the scaling capability of the low-level or restricted languages traditionally used for real-time programming. While Met...
David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, David Grove, Michael ...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) eases the development of profilers, debuggers, and reverse engineering tools. Such tools frequently rely on calling context information. However,...
There is an increasing interest in techniques that support measurement and analysis of fielded software systems. One of the main goals of these techniques is to better understand ...
Murali Haran, Alan F. Karr, Alessandro Orso, Adam ...