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...
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...
—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 ...
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...
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...