Most design recovery approaches start from analysing source code. Nonetheless, it is very difficult to get adequate design information only depending on source code. Additional av...
This paper presents a strategy, based on requirement patterns (RP), aimed at improving the requirement analysis discipline by allowing business analysts (BA) to produce more relia...
Luca Vetti Tagliati, Roger Johnson, George Roussos
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Insufficient documentation and constant refactorings of third-party libraries make API library reuse ...
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta, Kun...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
Abstract—With the wide support for serialization in objectoriented programming languages, persistent objects have become common place. Retrieving previously “persisted” objec...
Marco Piccioni, Manuel Oriol, Bertrand Meyer, Tese...