The paper describes results of an empirical study, where some hypotheses about the impact of reuse on defect-density and stability, and about the impact of component size on defec...
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Reidar Conradi, Ole M. Killi,...
Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...
It has been widely advocated that software architecture an effective set of abstractions for engineering (families of) complex software systems. However, architectural concepts ar...
Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Sharmila Ravula, Brad Pet...
This paper presents POLUS, a software maintenance tool capable of iteratively evolving running software into newer versions. POLUS's primary goal is to increase the dependabi...
Haibo Chen, Jie Yu, Rong Chen, Binyu Zang, Pen-Chu...
Understanding the structure of large existing (and evolving) software systems is a major challenge for software engineers. In reverse engineering, we aim to compute, for a given s...