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IWPC
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Archetypal Source Code Searches: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
IUI
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self-integrating Context-aware Services
Applications are often designed to take advantage of the potential for integration with each other via shared information. Current approaches for integration are limited, affectin...
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Andrew Wood
APSEC
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Formal Operational Semantics for SOFL
SOFL (Structured-Object-Based-Formal Language) is a formal language and method for practical systems development. As a language, it integrates data ow diagrams, VDM-SL, and Petri ...
Chris Ho-Stuart, Shaoying Liu
KBSE
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Application of Formal Methods to the Development of a Software Maintenance Tool
Partial evaluation is an optimization technique traditionally used in compilation. We have adapted this technique to the understanding of scientic application programs during t...
Sandrine Blazy, Philippe Facon
ICSM
1996
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Preprocessors from an Abstract Point of View
It is well known that the extensive use of preprocessors can lead to serious maintenance problems. However, these tools are still heavily used by developers and maintainers to imp...
Jean-Marie Favre