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ICSE
2004
IEEE-ACM
15 years 9 months ago
An Experimental, Pluggable Infrastructure for Modular Configuration Management Policy Composition
Building a configuration management (CM) system is a difficult endeavor that regularly requires tens of thousands of lines of code to be written. To reduce this effort, several ex...
Ronald van der Lingen, André van der Hoek
ECOOPW
1998
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Run-Time Adaptability of Synchronization Policies in Concurrent Object Oriented Languages
Adaptability has become one of the most important research areas in concurrent object-oriented systems in recent years. It tries to cope with system evolution by adding/replacing ...
Fernando Sánchez, Juan Hernández N&u...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Identifying crosscutting concerns using historical code changes
Detailed knowledge about implemented concerns in the source code is crucial for the cost-effective maintenance and successful evolution of large systems. Concern mining techniques...
Bram Adams, Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
ICSM
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...