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KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A survey of social software engineering
Software engineering is a complex sociotechnical activity, due to the need for discussing and sharing knowledge among team members. This has raised the need for effective ways of ...
Navid Ahmadi, Mehdi Jazayeri, Francesco Lelli, Sas...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Social thinking to design social software: A course experience report
Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to desi...
Cédric Mesnage, Mehdi Jazayeri
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Using dependency model to support software architecture evolution
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...
Hongyu Pei Breivold, Ivica Crnkovic, Rikard Land, ...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Architecting for evolvability by means of traceability and features
The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
Robert Brcina, Matthias Riebisch
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Exploiting social software to build open source communities
This paper describes work in progress on how to build open source communities. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications t...
Imed Hammouda, Timo Aaltonen, Petri Sirkkala
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Position paper: Meaningful updates to executing programs
Techniques to update executing programs are needed to maintain software for which downtime is not an option. Without guidelines, dynamic update may provoke unreliable and unpredic...
Pierre Duquesne, Ciarán Bryce
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Becoming responsive to service usage and performance changes by applying service feedback metrics to software maintenance
Software vendors are unaware of how their software performs in the field. They do not know what parts of their software are used and appreciated most and have little knowledge ab...
Henk van der Schuur, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkke...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dependence Anti Patterns
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Composition of Qualitative Adaptation Policies
In a highly dynamic environment, software systems requires a capacity of self-adaptation to fit the environment and the user needs evolution, which increases the software archite...
Franck Chauvel, Olivier Barais, Isabelle Borne, Je...