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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
In-field healing of integration problems with COTS components
Developers frequently integrate complex COTS frameworks and components in software applications. COTS products are often only partially documented, and developers may misuse techn...
Hervé Chang, Leonardo Mariani, Mauro Pezz&e...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The influence of organizational structure on software quality: an empirical case study
Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book that product quality i...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy, Victor R. Bas...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Hardening Web browsers against man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks
Existing Web browsers handle security errors in a manner that often confuses users. In particular, when a user visits a secure site whose certificate the browser cannot verify, th...
José Carlos Brustoloni, Xia Brustoloni
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Reduced empathizing skills increase challenges for user-centered design
User-Centered Design is surprisingly difficult. One of the biggest issues, certainly for those with no HCI or usability experience, is a lack of appreciation of how users think an...
William Hudson
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Why Can't They Create Architecture Models Like "Developer X"? An Experience Report
A large financial company, struggling with legacy systems that did not interoperate, performed a pilot project to teach software architecture to an enthusiastic application develo...
George Fairbanks