The goal of a load test is to uncover functional and performance problems of a system under load. Performance problems refer to the situations where a system suffers from unexpect...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Gilbert Hamann, ...
Back in 2001, the MIT announced aspect-oriented programming as a key technology in the next 10 years. Nowadays, 8 years later, AOP is not widely adopted. Several reasons can expla...
Code clone management has been shown to have several benefits for software developers. When source code evolves, clone management requires a mechanism to efficiently and increme...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Jafar M. Al-Ko...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
A build system breathes life into source code, as it configures and directs the construction of a software system from textual source code modules. Surprisingly, build languages a...