Software maintenance and evolution are inevitable activities since almost all software that is useful and successful stimulates user-generated requests for change and improvements...
We propose a model for describing and predicting the parallel performance of a broad class of parallel numerical software on distributed memory architectures. The purpose of this ...
Giuseppe Romanazzi, Peter K. Jimack, Christopher E...
Software program families have a long tradition and will gain momentum in the future. Today’s research tries to move software development to a new quality of industrial producti...
Thomas Leich, Sven Apel, Laura Marnitz, Gunter Saa...
Is the nature of Open Source Software (OSS) evolution fundamentally different from that of the traditional and commercially available software systems? Lehman and others conducted...
Empirical evaluation of software systems in actual usage situations is critical in software engineering. Prototyping, beta testing, and usability testing are widely used to refine...