We propose a novel methodology for analysing change propagation in software using the domain-level behavioural model of a system. We hypothesize that change propagation analysis i...
Amir Aryani, Ian D. Peake, Margaret Hamilton, Hein...
Maintenance is undoubtedly the most effort-consuming activity in software production whereby the entropy of legacy systems (e.g., due to redundancies, poor modularity and lack of ...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Petko Valtchev, Idrissa Konkob...
Global variable promotion, i.e. allocating unaliased globals to registers, can significantly reduce the number of memory operations. This results in reduced cache activity and less...
Commercial Scale-Out is a new research project at IBM Research. Its main goal is to investigate and develop technologies for the use of large scale parallelism in commercial appli...
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...