In software engineering, measurements can be used to monitor, understand and improve software processes as well as products and resource utilization. Commonly, measurement framewo...
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, ...
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...
—“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...
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...