—Modular software, in which strongly-separated units of functionality can be independently added to and removed from a node’s running software, offers a promising approach to e...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
Modern software systems are highly interconnected and have been under constant change for many years. IT decision makers find it difficult to predict and plan change projects due ...
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...
Industry recognizes that very small enterprises (VSE), that develop parts involving software components are very important to the economy. These parts are often integrated into pro...