267 search results - page 5 / 54 » The Linux kernel as a case study in software evolution |
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
ICSM
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2000
IEEE
IASSE
2004
13 years 8 months ago
2004
This paper describes how design information, in our case UML specifications, can be used to evolve a software system and validate the consistency of such an evolution. This work c...
FAST
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
We present Anticipatory Memory Allocation (AMA), a new method to build kernel code that is robust to memoryallocation failures. AMA avoids the usual difficulties in handling allo...
AINA
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2008
IEEE
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...