SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes ...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
Using the application programming interfaces (API) of large software systems requires developers to understand details about the interfaces that are often not explicitly defined. ...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
A modular program analysis considers components independently and provides succinct summaries for each component, which can be used when checking the rest of the system. Consider ...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
Project managers aim at keeping track of interdependencies between various artifacts of the software development lifecycle, to find out potential requirements conflicts, to better...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
There is an increasing interest in techniques that support measurement and analysis of fielded software systems. One of the main goals of these techniques is to better understand ...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We build on this work by addressing substitutability of subtypes as well as i...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
Software evolution research inherently has several resourceintensive logistical constraints. Archived project artifacts, such as those found in source code repositories and bug tr...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 7 days ago
2005
ACM
A way of combining object-oriented and structural paradigms of software composition is demonstrated in a tool for generative programming. Metaclasses are introduced that are compon...