Data races are a major contributor to parallel software unreliability. A type of race that is both common and typically harmful is the Asymmetric data race. It occurs when at leas...
Use case diagrams (UCDs) are widely used to describe requirements and desired functionality of software products. However, UCDs are loosely linked to source code, and maintaining ...
Mark Grechanik, Kathryn S. McKinley, Dewayne E. Pe...
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper presents the results of a formative observational study of seven professio...
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, Georg...
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
Although software managers are generally good at new project estimation, their experience of scheduling rework tends to be poor. Inconsistent or incorrect effort estimation can in...