Previous research has documented the fragmented nature of software development work, with frequent interruptions and coordination. To explain this in more detail, we analyzed soft...
The use of caches poses a difficult tradeoff for architects of real-time systems. While caches provide significant performance advantages, they have also been viewed as inherently...
Robert D. Arnold, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley,...
Engineering diagnosis often involves analyzing complex records of system states printed to large, textual log files. Typically the logs are designed to accommodate the widest debug...
Data races are one of the most common and subtle causes of pernicious concurrency bugs. Static techniques for preventing data races are overly conservative and do not scale well t...
Daniel Marino, Madanlal Musuvathi, Satish Narayana...
One of the characteristics of large software systems is that they evolve over time. Evolution patterns include modifications related to the implementation, interfaces and the over...
Ladan Tahvildari, Richard Gregory, Kostas Kontogia...