It is widely believed that distributed software development is riskier and more challenging than collocated development. Prior literature on distributed development in software en...
Christian Bird, Nachiappan Nagappan, Premkumar T. ...
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...
A common and difficult maintenance activity is the integration of existing software components or tools into a consistent and interoperable whole. One area in which this has prov...
Unit testing is a technique of testing a single unit of a program in isolation. The testability of the unit under test can be reduced when the unit interacts with its environment....
Madhuri R. Marri, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonat...
Abstract: Software product line engineering is an established methodology for fast and effective development of software-intensive systems and services. To reap maximum benefits fr...