The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...
Formal models serve in many roles in the programming language community. In its primary role, a model communicates the idea of a language design; the architecture of a language to...
Casey Klein, John Clements, Christos Dimoulas, Car...
Undergraduate students who perform research benefit greatly from the experience, yet achieving high levels of voluntary participation remains an elusive goal. This paper describes...
Different classes of information system stakeholders depend on different values to be successful. Understanding stakeholders’ value dependencies is critical for developing softw...
Di Wu, Qi Li, Mei He, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Sup...
Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...