We wish to investigate how structural design principles are used in practice, in order to assess the utility and relevance of such principles to the maintenance of large, complex,...
The Sage development method and associated tool set support an incremental, iterative, model-driven process to build and maintain high assurance, reactive multi-agent systems. A s...
Redundant code obstructs program understanding and contributes to high maintenance costs. While most experts agree on that, opinions on how serious the problem of redundancies rea...
Service availability is of key importance to operations and maintenance systems for mobile telephony networks. This paper will describe some of the challenges in providing continu...
This short paper reports a pilot experiment conducted with master students, in which we investigated whether Fit test cases were helpful to clarify change requirements in a mainte...
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Pe...