The design productivity gap requires more efficient design methods. Software systems have faced the same challenge and seem to have mastered it with the
reness has more abstract social value: People who use frequent eye contact are perceived as more attentive, friendly, cooperative, confident, mature, and sincere than those who avo...
Jim Gemmell, Kentaro Toyama, C. Lawrence Zitnick, ...
Background: Defects are related to failures and they do not have much power for indicating a higher quality or a better system above the baseline that the end-users expect. Nevert...
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
As a novel approach to software maintenance in large clusters of PCs requiring multiple OS installations we implemented partition cloning and partition repositories as well as a s...