The growing speed gap between memory and processor makes an efficient use of the cache ever more important to reach high performance. One of the most important ways to improve cac...
Testing object-oriented (OO) software is critical because OO languages are commonly used in developing modern software systems. In testing OO software, one important and yet chall...
Hojun Jaygarl, Sunghun Kim, Tao Xie, Carl K. Chang
This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
Programs often have a lot of duplicated code, which makes both understanding and maintenance more difficult. This problem can be alleviated by detecting duplicated code, extracting...
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...