One of the most important steps towards eective software maintenance of a large complicated system is to understand how program features are spread over the entire system and thei...
W. Eric Wong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Joseph Robert Hor...
Automated finite-state verification techniques have matured considerably in the past several years, but state-space explosion remains an obstacle to their use. Theoretical lower b...
Yung-Pin Cheng, Michal Young, Che-Ling Huang, Chia...
This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
In recent years, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is gaining momentum with more and more successful adoptions. Several companies including some well known names have embraced this new...
Software components are increasingly assembled from other components. Each component may further depend on others, and each may have multiple active versions. The total number of ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....