The usefulness of design patterns in forward engineering is already well-known and several tools provide support for their application in the development of software systems. Whil...
Feature location aims at locating pieces of code that implement a given set of features (requirements). It is a necessary first step in every program comprehension and maintenanc...
Program instrumentation, inserted either before or during execution, is rapidly becoming a necessary component of many systems. Instrumentation is commonly used to collect informa...
We propose a method for fine grain QoS control of real-time applications. The method allows adapting the overall system behavior by adequately setting the quality level parameter...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Thierry Lep...
Mission critical applications and legacy systems may be difficult to revise and rebuild, and yet it is sometimes desirable to retrofit their user interfaces with new collaborative...
Li-Te Cheng, Steven L. Rohall, John F. Patterson, ...