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WOSP
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Software performance modelling using PEPA nets
Modelling and analysing distributed and mobile software systems is a challenging task. PEPA nets—coloured stochastic Petri nets—are a recently introduced modelling formalism w...
Stephen Gilmore, Jane Hillston, Leïla Kloul, ...
ACMSE
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Change propagations in the maintenance of kernel-based software with a study on Linux
As a software system evolves to accommodate new features and repair bugs, changes are needed. Software components are interdependent, changes made to one component can require cha...
Liguo Yu, Srini Ramaswamy
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A framework for characterization and analysis of software system scalability
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
Leticia Duboc, David S. Rosenblum, Tony Wicks
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METRICS
2005
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Experiences from Conducting Semi-structured Interviews in Empirical Software Engineering Research
Many phenomena related to software development are qualitative in nature. Relevant measures of such phenomena are often collected using semi-structured interviews. Such interviews...
Siw Elisabeth Hove, Bente Anda
SAC
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A relational approach to software metrics
There is still no standardization of software measures and metrics extraction tools have to be updated frequently to handle the changes. A possible solution is represented by usin...
Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, T...