Studying the release-time activities of a software project — that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release — can provide insights into both the de...
Software maintenance is a highly collaborative activity whose social context is rarely addressed. To explore this context, we conducted an ethnographic study at a large technology...
Large object-oriented applications are structured over large number of packages. Packages are important but complex structural entities that may be difficult to understand since ...
The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortu...
Bram Adams, Herman Tromp, Kris De Schutter, Wolfga...
— The current standard for Fault-Tolerance in the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) does not support network partitioning. However, distributed systems, and those...