Managed runtime environments (MREs) employ garbage collection (GC) for automatic memory management. However, GC induces pressure on the virtual memory (VM) manager, since it may t...
Chris Grzegorczyk, Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, Ri...
Uncertainty analysis through sensitivity studies and quantification of the variance of the reliability estimate has become more common in architecture-based software reliability ...
Libraries provide implementation for the concepts of a particular domain. When programmers use a library, they do not work any more with the real-world concepts but with their imp...
Large object-oriented applications are structured over large number of packages. Packages are important but complex structural entities that may be difficult to understand since ...
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...