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ISESE
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A goal question metric based approach for efficient measurement framework definition
In software engineering, measurements can be used to monitor, understand and improve software processes as well as products and resource utilization. Commonly, measurement framewo...
Patrik Berander, Per Jönsson
CCS
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
HyperSentry: enabling stealthy in-context measurement of hypervisor integrity
This paper presents HyperSentry, a novel framework to enable integrity measurement of a running hypervisor (or any other highest privileged software layer on a system). Unlike exi...
Ahmed M. Azab, Peng Ning, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, ...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Use of relative code churn measures to predict system defect density
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball
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WCRE
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Tracking Design Smells: Lessons from a Study of God Classes
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Stéphane Vaucher, Foutse Khomh, Naouel Moha...
ECOOP
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Case Study for Aspect Based Updating
Rather than upgrading a software system to the next version by installing a new binary, software systems could be updated "on-thefly" during their execution. We are devel...
Susanne Cech Previtali, Thomas R. Gross