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CSMR
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Dynamic Function Coupling Metric and Its Use in Software Evolution
Many of the existing techniques for impact set computation in change propagation and regression testing are approximate for the sake of efficiency. A way to improve precision is ...
Árpád Beszédes, Tamás ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Avida-MDE: a digital evolution approach to generating models of adaptive software behavior
Increasingly, high-assurance applications rely on autonomic systems to respond to changes in their environment. The inherent uncertainty present in the environment of autonomic sy...
Heather Goldsby, Betty H. C. Cheng
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy, Kris De Volder
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Strengthening Refactoring: Towards Software Evolution with Quantitative and Experimental Grounds
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
Sergio Bryton, Fernando Brito e Abreu
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An evaluation of Differential Evolution in software test data generation
— One of the main tasks software testing involves is the generation of the test inputs to be used during the test. Due to its expensive cost, the automation of this task has beco...
Ricardo Landa Becerra, Ramón Sagarna, Xin Y...