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METRICS
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Metrics of Software Architecture Changes Based on Structural Distance
Software architecture is an important form of abstraction, representing the overall system structure and the relationship among components. When software is modified from one ver...
Taiga Nakamura, Victor R. Basili
COMPSAC
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Protecting Distributed Software Upgrades that Involve Message-Passing Interface Changes
We present in this paper an extension of the messagedriven confidence-driven framework that we developed for onboard guarded software upgrading. The purpose of this work is to pr...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Precisely Detecting Runtime Change Interactions for Evolving Software
Abstract—Developers often make multiple changes to software. These changes are introduced to work cooperatively or to accomplish separate goals. However, changes might not intera...
Raúl A. Santelices, Mary Jean Harrold, Ales...
ISESE
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Clustering Software Artifacts Based on Frequent Common Changes
Changes of software systems are less expensive and less error-prone if they affect only one subsystem. Thus, clusters of artifacts that are frequently changed together are subsyst...
Dirk Beyer, Andreas Noack