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ICSM
1994
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Change Analysis Process to Characterize Software Maintenance Projects
In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
GECCO
2006
Springer
130views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Pairwise sequence comparison for fitness evaluation in evolutionary structural software testing
Evolutionary algorithms are among the metaheuristic search methods that have been applied to the structural test data generation problem. Fitness evaluation methods play an import...
H. Turgut Uyar, A. Sima Etaner-Uyar, A. Emre Harma...
CGO
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Fast Track: A Software System for Speculative Program Optimization
—Fast track is a software speculation system that enables unsafe optimization of sequential code. It speculatively runs optimized code to improve performance and then checks the ...
Kirk Kelsey, Tongxin Bai, Chen Ding, Chengliang Zh...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
16 years 1 months ago
How to avoid drastic software process change (using stochastic stability)
Before performing drastic changes to a project, it is worthwhile to thoroughly explore the available options within the current structure of a project. An alternative to drastic c...
Tim Menzies, Steve Williams, Barry W. Boehm, Jairu...
IWPC
2008
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
What's a Typical Commit? A Characterization of Open Source Software Repositories
The research examines the version histories of nine open source software systems to uncover trends and characteristics of how developers commit source code to version control syst...
Abdulkareem Alali, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. Ma...