An operational profile is a quantification of the expected use of a system. Determining an operational profile for software is a crucial and difficult part of software reliability...
Rakesh Shukla, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Stroop...
Software evolution is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexities, which in turn may lead to huge costs unless rigorously taking into acco...
Hongyu Pei Breivold, Ivica Crnkovic, Peter J. Erik...
In this paper we propose a meta-model for architectures with heterogeneous multimedia components. Currently, a generic solution does not exist to automatically deploy a distributed...
Derdour Makhlouf, Philippe Roose, Marc Dalmau, Nac...
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...