—Software logging is a conventional programming practice. While its efficacy is often important for users and developers to understand what have happened in the production run, ...
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development practice that has been used sporadically for decades. With this practice, a software engineer cycles minute-by-minute betwee...
Nachiappan Nagappan, E. Michael Maximilien, Thirum...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
The presence of vulnerable statements in the source code is a crucial problem for maintainers: properly monitoring and, if necessary, removing them is highly desirable to ensure h...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Luigi Cerulo, Lerina Aversa...
- Managing the product’s backlog is a major task in agile projects. This case study reports on one organization’s experiences from the transition to a backlog management tool a...