This short paper reports a pilot experiment conducted with master students, in which we investigated whether Fit test cases were helpful to clarify change requirements in a mainte...
Marco Torchiano, Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Pe...
In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages are subject to change. The changes affect the language’s specification, which in turn a...
Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachs...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
Modern software systems are highly interconnected and have been under constant change for many years. IT decision makers find it difficult to predict and plan change projects due ...
How can XP or other agile methods be used in large corporate IT shops? One large company found out, making XP the official corporate software development methodology for all proje...