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ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A Scenario-Driven Approach to Traceability
Design traceability has been widely recognized as being an integral aspect of software development. In the past years this fact has been amplified due to the increased use of lega...
Alexander Egyed
CSEE
2001
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Systems Failures
Software Systems permeate just about every aspect of life throughout developed and industrialised nations today. When failures arise, the aftermath is highly complicated because t...
John Donaldson, John Jenkins
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Visual exploration of large-scale evolving software
The comprehensive understanding of today’s software systems is a daunting activity, because of the sheer size and complexity that such systems exhibit. Moreover, software system...
Richard Wettel
CSMR
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Method for Choosing Software Assessment Measures Using Bayesian Networks and Diagnosis
Creating accurate models of information systems is an important but challenging task. It is generally well understood that such modeling encompasses general scientific issues, bu...
Ulrik Franke, Pontus Johnson, Robert Lagerströ...
SCAM
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Handling Preprocessor-Conditioned Declarations
Many software systems are developed with configurable functionality, and for multiple hardware platforms and operating systems. This can lead to thousands of possible configuratio...
Lerina Aversano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ira D. Bax...
P2P
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dependability Properties of P2P Architectures
There is an increasing interest in using P2P as a basis for software systems. However, by their very nature, achieving dependability within a P2P system can be difficult. This pap...
James Walkerdine, Lee Melville, Ian Sommerville
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Software - No More Excuses
Software developers identify two main reasons why software systems are not made robust: performance and practicality. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of general technique...
John DeVale, Philip Koopman
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reducing Recovery Time in a Small Recursively Restartable System
We present ideas on how to structure software systems for high availability by considering MTTR/MTTF characteristics of components in addition to the traditional criteria, such as...
George Candea, James Cutler, Armando Fox, Rushabh ...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluating and improving the automatic analysis of implicit invocation systems
Model checking and other finite-state analysis techniques have been very successful when used with hardware systems and less successful with software systems. It is especially di...
Jeremy S. Bradbury, Jürgen Dingel
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Eliciting Coordination Policies from Requirements
Software coordination models and languages describe how agents, resources and processes work together to implement a software system. One of their limitations is that they are use...
Henry Muccini, Fabio Mancinelli