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ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Evidence for SOC Dynamics in Software Evolution
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt, Ahmed E. Hassan
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Web Service Trust: Towards a Dynamic Assessment Framework
— Trust in software services is a key prerequisite for the success and wide adoption of Services-Oriented Computing (SOC) in an open Internet world. However, trust is poorly asse...
George Spanoudakis, Stephane LoPresti
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Strengthening Refactoring: Towards Software Evolution with Quantitative and Experimental Grounds
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
Sergio Bryton, Fernando Brito e Abreu
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
SCARPE: A Technique and Tool for Selective Capture and Replay of Program Executions
Because of software’s increasing dynamism and the heterogeneity of execution environments, the results of in-house testing and maintenance are often not representative of the wa...
Shrinivas Joshi, Alessandro Orso
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Israel Herraiz