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ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
JTourBus: Simplifying Program Understanding by Documentation that Provides Tours Through the Source Code
Many small and medium-sized systems have little or no design documentation, which makes program understanding during maintenance enormously more difficult when performed by outsi...
Christopher Oezbek, Lutz Prechelt
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Social Context of Software Maintenance
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Jonathan Sillito, Eleanor Wynn
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems
Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the prediction of the evolution of libre software projects
Libre (free / open source) software development is a complex phenomenon. Many actors (core developers, casual contributors, bug reporters, patch submitters, users, etc.), in many ...
Israel Herraiz, Jesús M. González-Ba...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of Semantic Interference Detection in Parallel Changes: an Exploratory Experiment
Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed ...
Danhua Shao, Sarfraz Khurshid, Dewayne E. Perry
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
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Debugging Integrated Systems: An Ethnographic Study of Debugging Practice
This paper explores how software developers debug integrated systems, where they have little or no access to the source code of the third-party software the system is composed of....
Thomas Østerlie, Alf Inge Wang
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Re-computing Coverage Information to Assist Regression Testing
This paper presents a technique that leverages an existing regression test-selection algorithm to compute accurate, updated coverage data on a version of the software, Pi+1, witho...
Pavan Kumar Chittimalli, Mary Jean Harrold