ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
The FermaT transformation system, based on research carried out over the last twelve years at Durham University and Software Migrations Ltd., is an industrial-strength formal tran...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Exception-handling constructs provide a mechanism for raising exceptions, and a facility for designating protected code by attaching exception handlers to blocks of code. Despite ...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software architecture visualization tools tend to support browsing, that is, exploration by following concepts. If architectural diagrams are to be used during daily software main...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Evolving an existing software system is fundamentally different from developing one from scratch. Consequently, tools to support evolution must go beyond traditional development t...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Test case prioritization techniques schedule test cases for execution in an order that attempts to maximize some objective function. A variety of objective functions are applicabl...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Recovering architectural documentation from code is crucial to maintaining and reengineering software systems. Reverse engineering and program understanding approaches are often l...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Software architecture is important for large systems in which it is the main means for, among other things, controlling complexity. Current ideas on software architectures were no...
ICSM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Code duplication is one of the factors that severely complicates the maintenance and evolution of large software systems. Techniques for detecting duplicated code exist but rely m...