A typical approach to software maintenance is analyzing just the source code, applying some patches, releasing the new version, and then updating the documentation. This quick-fix...
Organizations spend significant resources tracking customer satisfaction and managing service delivery. Although a great deal of effort is expended in understanding what goes on w...
— Reverse engineering of large legacy software systems generally cannot meet its objectives because it cannot be cost-effective. There are two main reasons for this. First, it is...
Bruce W. Weide, Wayne D. Heym, Joseph E. Hollingsw...
-- While a large fraction of application code is devoted to graphical user interface (GUI) functions, support for reuse in this domain has largely been confined to the creation of...
Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Kenneth M. An...
This paper addresses the question of whether the reverse engineering of legacy systems is doomed to failure. Our position is that the answer is highly dependent on the specific go...
The ViewPoints framework for distributed and concurrent software engineering provides an alternative approach to traditional centralised software development environments. We inve...
A requirement is a desired relationship among phenomena of the environment of a system, to be brought about by the hardware/software machine that will be constructed and installed...
As software developers we are engineers because we make useful machines. We are concerned both with the world, in which the machine serves a useful purpose, and with the machine i...