Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
Ciaran O'Reilly, Philip J. Morrow, David W. Bustar...
—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard for object-oriented software analysis and design modeling. However, few empirical studies exist which investigate the c...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Erik Arisholm, Lionel C. Brian...
With the rapid replacement of closed, homogeneous, proprietary HPC systems by heterogeneous, Linux-MPI cluster systems, the state of performance monitoring and analysis tools has ...
Many software systems contained cloned code, i.e., segments of code that are highly similar to each other, typically because one has been copied from the other, and then possibly m...