—To survive and succeed, software projects need to attract and retain contributors. We model the individual’s chances to become a valuable contributor through her capacity, wil...
A great deal of work on software maintenance focuses on source code analysis and manipulation. Code is viewed as a static entity that is – more or less – separated from the sy...
—A measure of how a class is impacted during design evolution is presented. The history of design changes that involve a given class is the basis for the measure. Classes that ar...
Maen Hammad, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Malet...
Hybrid measurement-based approaches to worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis combine measured execution times of small program segments using static analysis of the larger sof...
It is important to focus on security aspects during the development cycle to deliver reliable software. However, locating security faults in complex systems is difficult and ther...