Software Engineers frequently need to locate and understand the code that implements a specific user feature of a large system. This paper reports on a study by Motorola Inc. and ...
Michael Jiang, Michael Groble, Sharon Simmons, Den...
Code churn, the amount of code change taking place within a software unit over time, has been correlated with fault-proneness in software systems. We investigate the use of code c...
Lucas Layman, Gunnar Kudrjavets, Nachiappan Nagapp...
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
—We propose an extension of van Lamsweerde’s goal-oriented requirements engineering to the domain of programmable DNA nanotechnology. This is a domain in which individual devic...
Robyn R. Lutz, Jack H. Lutz, James I. Lathrop, Tit...
In software development, resources for quality assurance are limited by time and by cost. In order to allocate resources effectively, managers need to rely on their experience bac...