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IWPSE
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Talking tests: an empirical assessment of the role of fit acceptance tests in clarifying requirements
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...
RAS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Towards long-lived robot genes
Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale
EWSA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Managing Dynamic Reconfiguration in Component-Based Systems
We propose a meta-framework called ‘Plastik’ which i) supports the specification and creation of runtime component-framework-based software systems and ii) facilitates and mana...
Thaís Vasconcelos Batista, Ackbar Joolia, G...
CBSE
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Introducing a Component Technology for Safety Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems
Safety critical embedded real-time systems represent a class of systems that has attracted relatively little attention in research addressing component based software engineering. ...
Kristian Sandström, Johan Fredriksson, Mikael...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...