Software products released into the field typically have some number of residual defects that either were not detected or could not have been detected during testing. This may be...
Christian Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Ian Vo, Matt Chu
Critical properties of software systems, such as reliability, should be considered early in the development, when they can govern crucial architectural design decisions. A number o...
Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Barbora Buhnova, Ral...
Problem frames provide a means of analyzing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside of the computer, helping the developer to focus on the problem domain, inste...
Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Robin C. Laney, Bash...
A memory leak in a Java program occurs when object references that are no longer needed are unnecessarily maintained. Such leaks are difficult to understand because static analyse...
As software evolves, maintenance practices require a process of accommodating changing requirements while minimizing the cost of implementing those changes. Over time, incompatibi...