It is important that long running server programs retain availability amidst software failures. However, server programs do fail and one of the important causes of failures in ser...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) aim at the alignment of business and IT by having a clear business process-centric focus. In order to reach that goal, real-world business pro...
Philipp Liegl, Rainer Schuster, Marco Zapletal, Ch...
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
We are now witnessing the rapid growth of decentralized source code management (DSCM) systems, in which every developer has her own repository. DSCMs facilitate a style of collabo...
Christian Bird, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, Davi...
The Web is a dynamic information environment. Web content changes regularly and people revisit Web pages frequently. But the tools used to access the Web, including browsers and s...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling,...