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HICSS
2011
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
A Rule-Based Natural Language Technique for Requirements Discovery and Classification in Open-Source Software Development Projec
Open source projects do have requirements; they are, however, mostly informal, text descriptions found in requests, forums, and other correspondence. Understanding of such require...
Radu Vlas, William N. Robinson
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 5 months ago
POLUS: A POwerful Live Updating System
This paper presents POLUS, a software maintenance tool capable of iteratively evolving running software into newer versions. POLUS's primary goal is to increase the dependabi...
Haibo Chen, Jie Yu, Rong Chen, Binyu Zang, Pen-Chu...
IWPC
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Crosscutting patterns and design stability: An exploratory analysis
It is often claimed that inaccurate modularisation of crosscutting concerns hinders program comprehension and, as a consequence, leads to harmful software instabilities. However, ...
Eduardo Figueiredo, Bruno Carreiro da Silva, Cl&aa...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Identifying Architectural Change Patterns in Object-Oriented Systems
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
IWPC
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An Integrated Approach for Studying Architectural Evolution
Studying how a software system has evolved over time is difficult, time consuming, and costly; existing techniques are often limited in their applicability, are hard to extend, a...
Qiang Tu, Michael W. Godfrey