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FASE
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Why the Virtual Nature of Software Makes It Ideal for Search Based Optimization
This paper1 provides a motivation for the application of search based optimization to Software Engineering, an area that has come to be known as Search Based Software Engineering (...
Mark Harman
IWPC
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Identifying Word Relations in Software: A Comparative Study of Semantic Similarity Tools
Modern software systems are typically large and complex, making comprehension of these systems extremely difficult. Experienced programmers comprehend code by seamlessly processi...
Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, ...
ASWEC
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Evaluating software refactoring tool support
Up to 75% of the costs associated with the development of software systems occur post-deployment during maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is a process which can sign...
Erica Mealy, Paul A. Strooper
ASWEC
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Connector-Driven Process for the Gradual Evolution of Component-Based Software
Large, complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Addition, removal and replacement of a software component are the elementary evolution operations that have ...
Huaxi (Yulin) Zhang, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Va...
COMPSAC
1999
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Software Architecture Slicing
As the complexity of software systems increases, so need for a good mechanism of abstraction. architecture design is an abstraction, hiding an immense amount of details about the ...
Taeho Kim, Yeong-Tae Song, Lawrence Chung, Dung T....