CCS
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2006
ACM
Software consumers often need to choose between different software that provide the same functionality. Today, security is a quality that many consumers, especially system adminis...
CSMR
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
Software systems need to evolve as business requirements, technology and environment change. As software is modified to accommodate the required changes, its structure deteriorate...
GI
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
: Today software systems have to face frequent requests for change during their whole lifetime. It is very important that they can adapt to the frequently changing needs and are fl...
APSEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
SIGMETRICS
1993
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
1993
ACM
: Performance is critical to the success of today’s software systems. However, many software products fail to meet their performance objectives when they are initially constructe...
KBSE
1997
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1997
IEEE
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...
KBSE
1997
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1997
IEEE
Modern software systems are designed and implemented in a modular fashion by composing individual components. Early validation of individual module designs and implementations off...
IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...
DEXAW
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Huge size and high complexity of legacy software are the main sources of today's software evolution problems. While we can ease software evolution with re-engineering tools, ...
TOOLS
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
The development of large software systems demands intensive cooperation among multiple project team members with different responsibilities. The development process is often distr...