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RE
1995
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Using non-functional requirements to systematically support change
Non-Functional requirements (or quality requirements, NFRs) such as confidentiality, performance and timeliness are often crucial to a software system. Our NFRFramework treats NF...
Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric S. K. Yu
OOPSLA
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Finding refactorings via change metrics
Reverse engineering is the process of uncovering the design and the design rationale from a functioning software system. Reverse engineering is an integral part of any successful ...
Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nier...
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Software engineering for security: a roadmap
Is there such a thing anymore as a software system that doesn't need to be secure? Almost every softwarecontrolled system faces threats from potential adversaries, from Inter...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Stuart G. Stubblebine
APSEC
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
MUDABlue: An Automatic Categorization System for Open Source Repositories
Open Source communities typically use a software repository to archive various software projects with their source code, mailing list discussions, documentation, bug reports, and ...
Shinji Kawaguchi, Pankaj K. Garg, Makoto Matsushit...
ACMSE
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Verifying design modularity, hierarchy, and interaction locality using data clustering techniques
Modularity, hierarchy, and interaction locality are general approaches to reducing the complexity of any large system. A widely used principle in achieving these goals in designin...
Liguo Yu, Srini Ramaswamy
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
DIME: A Direct Manipulation Environment for Evolutionary Development of Software
This paper presents an overview of the DIME environment (DIrect Manipulation Environment) being developed by the author. The paper presents the DIME vision, its catalogue of evolu...
Arun Lakhotia
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
MoJo: A Distance Metric for Software Clusterings
The software clustering problem has attracted much attention recently, since it is an integral part of the process of reverse engineering large software systems. A key problem in ...
Vassilios Tzerpos, Richard C. Holt
ESEC
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Synergy between Component-Based and Generative Approaches
Building software systems out of pre-fabricated components is a very attractive vision. Distributed Component Platforms (DCP) and their visual development environments bring this v...
Stan Jarzabek, Peter Knauber
WCRE
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Understanding the Behavior of Java Programs
To fully understand the underlying architecture of an object-oriented software system, both static and dynamic analyses are needed. Dynamic reverse engineering techniques are espe...
Tarja Systä
DSN
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Testing for Software Vulnerability Using Environment Perturbation
We describe an methodology for testing a software system for possible security flaws. Based on the observation that most security flaws are caused by the program’s inappropria...
Wenliang Du, Aditya P. Mathur