—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
High-speed serial network interfaces are gaining wide use in connecting multiple processors and peripherals in modern embedded systems, thanks to their size advantage and power ef...
In examining software maintenance processes for improvement opportunities, an obvious choice is information flow. Obtaining accurate, up-to-date, and useful information about a sy...
While code understanding is the primary program comprehension activity, it is quite challenging to recognize the application requirements from code, since they have usually been o...
Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, Paul G. Sorenso...
A design pattern encapsulates the knowledge of object-oriented designers into re-usable artifacts. A design pattern is a descriptive device that fosters software design re-use. Th...
Steve MacDonald, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer...