Investigations of software development practices, processes, and techniques frequently report separately on the costs and benefits of a phenomenon under study, but rarely adequate...
Transparent system support for software fault tolerance reduces performance in general and precludes application-specific optimizations in particular. In contrast, explicit support...
—There are numerous studies that examine whether or not cloned code is harmful to software systems. Yet, few of them study which characteristics of cloned code in particular lead...
Gehan M. K. Selim, Liliane Barbour, Weiyi Shang, B...
The biggest challenge facing software developers today is how to gracefully evolve complex software systems in the face of changing requirements. We clearly need software systems t...
The craft of software understanding and verification can benefit from technologies that enable evolution toward a true engineering discipline. In current practice, software develo...