Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...
Software teams should follow a well defined goal and keep their work focused. Work fragmentation is bad for efficiency and quality. In this paper we empirically investigate the re...
Martin Pinzger, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murph...
As software evolves, impact analysis estimates the potential effects of changes, before or after they are made, by identifying which parts of the software may be affected by such ...
Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Alessandro Orso, Mary Jea...
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
For modern embedded systems, the complexity of embedded applications has reached a point where the performance requirements of these applications can no longer be supported by emb...