The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
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Modern programs frequently employ sophisticated modular designs. As a result, performance problems cannot be identified from costs attributed to routines in isolation; understand...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
Code specialization is a way to obtain significant improvement in the performance of an application. It works by exposing values of different parameters in source code. The availa...
Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Henri-Pierre Charles, Denis Bar...
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any informa...
OOP style requires programmers to organize their code according to objects (or nouns, using natural language as a metaphor), causing a program’s actions (verbs) to become scatte...