We present an approach for the generation of components for a software renovation factory. These components are generated from a context-free grammar definition that recognizes t...
Mark van den Brand, M. P. A. Sellink, Chris Verhoe...
There are many commercial tools that address various aspects of the Year 2000 problem. None of these tools, however, addresses the closely-related leap-year problem. In this paper...
Schlumberger RPS successfully applies software measurement to support their software development projects. It is proposed that the success of their measurement practices is mainly...
An experiment comparing the effectiveness of equivalence partitioning (EP), boundary value analysis (BVA), and random testing was performed, based on an operational avionics syste...
The shapes of forests of inheritance trees can affect the amount of code reuse in an object-oriented system. Designers can benefit from knowing how structuring decisions affect r...
The process of E-type software development andevolution has proven most difficult to improve, possibly due to the fact that the processis a multi-input, multi-output system involv...
Meir M. Lehman, Juan F. Ramil, Paul Wernick, Deway...
Deduction-based software component retrieval uses preand postconditions as indexes and search keys and an automated theorem prover (ATP) to check whether a component matches. This...
Legacy software systems present a high level of entropy combined with imprecise documentation. This makes their maintenance more difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In o...