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WWW
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Automated performance assessment for service-oriented middleware: a case study on BPEL engines
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
RE
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Clear justification of modeling decisions for goal-oriented requirements engineering
Representation and reasoning about goals of an information system unavoidably involve the transformation of unclear stakeholder requirements into an instance of a goal model. If t...
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Pierre-Yves...
ISPW
1996
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Feedback, evolution and software technology
A 1968 study of the software process led, inter alia, to the observation that the software process constitutes a feedback system. Attempts at its management and improvement must t...
M. M. Lehman
SJ
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Heuristics for Systems Engineering Cost Estimation
Abstract—Engineering cannot wait until all phenomena are explained. Engineers may work effectively, often for centuries, with heuristics. This paper provides thirty one heuristic...
Ricardo Valerdi
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Program comprehension as fact finding
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...