Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
An important decision problem in many software projects is when to stop testing and release software for use. For many software products, time to market is critical and therefore ...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, William Marsh, Pete...
Many legacy systems were developed in COBOL, which still play an important role in business. It is an unavoidable issue for organisations to maintain or replace these COBOL system...
On-the-fly programming is a style of programming in which the programmer/performer/composer augments and modifies the program while it is running, without stopping or restarting, ...
In the so-called Information-Explosion Era, astronomical amount of information is ubiquitously produced and digitally stored. It is getting more and more convenient for cooperative...