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MSR
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change hi...
Peter Weißgerber, Stephan Diehl
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CSMR
2004
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Documenting Maintenance Tasks Using Maintenance Patterns
A common problem in software maintenance is the lack of documentation required for carrying out the maintenance tasks. Both expected and unexpected maintenance tasks use and produ...
Imed Hammouda, Maarit Harsu
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RE
1995
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Using non-functional requirements to systematically support change
Non-Functional requirements (or quality requirements, NFRs) such as confidentiality, performance and timeliness are often crucial to a software system. Our NFRFramework treats NF...
Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric S. K. Yu
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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Towards an assume-guarantee theory for adaptable systems
Modern software systems should be more and more designed with adaptation and run-time evolution in mind. But even with good reactions to changes, the triggered adaptation should b...
Paola Inverardi, Patrizio Pelliccione, Massimo Tiv...
ICFEM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Qualitative Action Systems
An extension to action systems is presented facilitating the modeling of continuous behavior in the discrete domain. The original action system formalism has been developed by Back...
Bernhard K. Aichernig, Harald Brandl, Willibald Kr...