Delivering increasingly complex software-reliant systems demands better ways to manage the long-term effects of shortterm expedients. The technical debt metaphor is gaining signif...
Nanette Brown, Yuanfang Cai, Yuepu Guo, Rick Kazma...
Empirical studies of software defects rely on links between bug databases and program code repositories. This linkage is typically based on bug-fixes identified in developer-enter...
Adrian Bachmann, Christian Bird, Foyzur Rahman, Pr...
Source code is the target and final outcome of software development. By focusing our research and analysis on source code only, we risk forgetting that software is the product of...
1 Electronic mail has become the most widely used business productivity application. However, people increasingly feel frustrated by their email. They are overwhelmed by the volum...
Steven L. Rohall, Dan Gruen, Paul Moody, Martin Wa...
Virtual prototyping is increasingly replacing real mock-ups and experiments in industrial product development. Part of this process is the simulation of structural and functional ...