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KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Architecting for evolvability by means of traceability and features
The frequent changes during the development and usage of large software systems often lead to a loss of architectural quality which hampers the implementation of further changes a...
Robert Brcina, Matthias Riebisch
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting social software to build open source communities
This paper describes work in progress on how to build open source communities. The proposed approach is based on exploiting existing social software communities and applications t...
Imed Hammouda, Timo Aaltonen, Petri Sirkkala
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Position paper: Meaningful updates to executing programs
Techniques to update executing programs are needed to maintain software for which downtime is not an option. Without guidelines, dynamic update may provoke unreliable and unpredic...
Pierre Duquesne, Ciarán Bryce
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Becoming responsive to service usage and performance changes by applying service feedback metrics to software maintenance
Software vendors are unaware of how their software performs in the field. They do not know what parts of their software are used and appreciated most and have little knowledge ab...
Henk van der Schuur, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkke...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Dependence Anti Patterns
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Composition of Qualitative Adaptation Policies
In a highly dynamic environment, software systems requires a capacity of self-adaptation to fit the environment and the user needs evolution, which increases the software archite...
Franck Chauvel, Olivier Barais, Isabelle Borne, Je...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Testing Peers' Volatility
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) is becoming a key technology for software development, but still lacks integrated solutions to build trust in the final software, in terms of correctness and...
Eduardo Cunha de Almeida, Gerson Sunyé, Yve...
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
How Program History Can Improve Code Completion
Code completion is a widely used productivity tool. It takes away the burden of remembering and typing the exact names of methods or classes: As a developer starts typing a name, ...
Romain Robbes, Michele Lanza
KBSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
DiffGen: Automated Regression Unit-Test Generation
— Software programs continue to evolve throughout their lifetime. Maintenance of such evolving programs, including regression testing, is one of the most expensive activities in ...
Kunal Taneja, Tao Xie