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ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
JTourBus: Simplifying Program Understanding by Documentation that Provides Tours Through the Source Code
Many small and medium-sized systems have little or no design documentation, which makes program understanding during maintenance enormously more difficult when performed by outsi...
Christopher Oezbek, Lutz Prechelt
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Israel Herraiz, Jesús M. González-Ba...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of Semantic Interference Detection in Parallel Changes: an Exploratory Experiment
Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed ...
Danhua Shao, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne E. Perry
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
SCARPE: A Technique and Tool for Selective Capture and Replay of Program Executions
Because of software’s increasing dynamism and the heterogeneity of execution environments, the results of in-house testing and maintenance are often not representative of the wa...
Shrinivas Joshi, Alessandro Orso
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Debugging Integrated Systems: An Ethnographic Study of Debugging Practice
This paper explores how software developers debug integrated systems, where they have little or no access to the source code of the third-party software the system is composed of....
Thomas Østerlie, Alf Inge Wang
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Re-computing Coverage Information to Assist Regression Testing
This paper presents a technique that leverages an existing regression test-selection algorithm to compute accurate, updated coverage data on a version of the software, Pi+1, witho...
Pavan Kumar Chittimalli, Mary Jean Harrold