The paper describes the initial results of applying Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to program source code and associated documentation. Latent Semantic Analysis is a corpus-based ...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
Traditionally, software pipelining is applied either to the innermost loop of a given loop nest or from the innermost loop to outer loops. In this paper, we propose a threestep ap...
: Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) provide an abstract representation of software systems. Achieving a concrete mapping of such representation into the implementation is o...
Traceability links among different software engineering artifacts make explicit how a software system was implemented to accommodate its requirements. For secure and dependable so...