Configuration and change request management systems offer valuable information for the assessment of process quality characteristics. The definition of appropriate metrics that ad...
Holger Schackmann, Martin Jansen, Christoph Lischk...
Recent research results have shown more benefits of the management of code clones, rather than detecting and removing them. However, existing clone management approaches are stil...
Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Nam H. Pham, J...
Collaboration is essential for the development of complex software systems. When a team of developers is geographically distributed, collaboration aspects –such as awareness, co...
Many of today’s complex systems are multithreaded servers that effectively run forever and need to work under varying loads and environments. Understanding the behavior of such ...
Spreadsheets are ubiquitous with evidence that Microsoft Excel, the leading application in the area, has an install base of 90% on end-user desktops. Nowhere is the usage of sprea...
We propose a new approach for reasoning about concurrency in object-oriented programs. Central to our approach is static ownership inference analysis — we conjecture that this a...
Determining whether a set of features can be composed, or safe composition, is a hard problem in software product line engineering because the number of feature combinations can b...
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Thein Than Tun, ...
It is important that information provided in bug reports is relevant and complete in order to help resolve bugs quickly. However, often such information trickles to developers aft...
Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito...
The Internet no longer meets the world’s requirements. Recognition of the Internet architecture’s inherent flaws has opened a window of opportunity for fresh thinking: granti...
During the requirements elicitation phase, analysts have often to take into consideration laws and regulations enacted by different levels of government. The purpose of this paper...
Alberto Siena, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John Mylo...