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ICSM
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Framework for Understanding Conceptual Changes in Evolving Source Code
As systems evolve, they become harder to understand because the implementation of concepts (e.g. business rules) becomes less coherent. To preserve source code comprehensibility, ...
Nicolas Gold, Andrew Mohan
KBSE
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Testing Database Transaction Concurrency
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Zhongqiang Chen
IUI
1999
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Programming by Demonstration: An Inductive Learning Formulation
Although Programming by Demonstration (PBD) has the potential to improve the productivity of unsophisticated users, previous PBD systems have used brittle, heuristic, domain-speci...
Tessa A. Lau, Daniel S. Weld
IWPC
1999
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Understanding COBOL Systems using Inferred Types
In a typical COBOL program, the data division consists of 50% of the lines of code. Automatic type inference can help to understand the large collections of variable declarations ...
Arie van Deursen, Leon Moonen
METRICS
1997
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Inheritance Tree Shapes and Reuse
The shapes of forests of inheritance trees can affect the amount of code reuse in an object-oriented system. Designers can benefit from knowing how structuring decisions affect r...
Byung-Kyoo Kang, James M. Bieman