Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Software process models are sophisticated and large specifications aimed at organizing and managing software development. Their formal specification demands an enormous effort,...
While often defined in informal ways, software cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. Cohesion measurement has been used for quality assessment, f...
Today, many formal analysis tools are not only used to provide certainty but are also used to debug software systems – a role that has traditional been reserved for testing tool...