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WCRE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Tracking Design Smells: Lessons from a Study of God Classes
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Stéphane Vaucher, Foutse Khomh, Naouel Moha...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A Framework for State-Space Exploration of Java-Based Actor Programs
—The actor programming model offers a promising model for developing reliable parallel and distributed code. Actors provide flexibility and scalability: local execution may be i...
Steven Lauterburg, Mirco Dotta, Darko Marinov, Gul...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Understanding source package organization using the hybrid model
Within a large, object-oriented software system it is common to partition the classes into a set of packages, which implicitly serve as a set of coarsely-grained logical design un...
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
ICSM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Prioritizing component compatibility tests via user preferences
Many software systems rely on third-party components during their build process. Because the components are constantly evolving, quality assurance demands that developers perform ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
ICSM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Israel Herraiz