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ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Dynamic slicing of multithreaded programs for race detection
Prior work has shown that computing dynamic slices of erroneous program values can greatly assist in locating the root cause of erroneous behavior by identifying faulty statements...
Sriraman Tallam, Chen Tian, Rajiv Gupta
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Traceability for the maintenance of secure software
Traceability links among different software engineering artifacts make explicit how a software system was implemented to accommodate its requirements. For secure and dependable so...
Yijun Yu, Jan Jürjens, John Mylopoulos
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Non-invasive and non-scattered annotations for more robust pointcuts
Annotations are often mentioned as a potential alternative to tackle the fragile nature of AspectJ pointcuts. However, annotations themselves can be considered crosscutting elemen...
Leonardo Silva, Samuel Domingues, Marco Tulio de O...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Supporting requirements reuse in multi-agent system product line design and evolution
A principal goal of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is to provide the mechanisms for reusing, maintaining and allowing the evolution of agent-based software systems. Ou...
Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Design principles in architectural evolution: A case study
We wish to investigate how structural design principles are used in practice, in order to assess the utility and relevance of such principles to the maintenance of large, complex,...
Michel Wermelinger, Yijun Yu, Angela Lozano
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Automatically identifying C++0x concepts in function templates
An automated approach to the identification of C++0x concepts in function templates is described. Concepts are part of a new language feature appearing in the next standard for C+...
Andrew Sutton, Jonathan I. Maletic
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Automated severity assessment of software defect reports
In mission critical systems, such as those developed by NASA, it is very important that the test engineers properly recognize the severity of each issue they identify during testi...
Tim Menzies, Andrian Marcus
ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The evolution of Eclipse
Tom Mens, Juan Fernández-Ramil, Sylvain Deg...