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In this demonstration we present the traceability recovery tool developed in ADAMS, a fine-grained artefact management system. The tool is based on an Information Retrieval technique, namely Latent Semantic Indexing, and aims at supporting the software engineer in the identificat…
Replications play an important role in verifying empirical results. In this paper, we discuss our experiences performing a literal replication of a human subjects experiment that examined the relationship between a simple test for consistent use of mental models, and success in a…
Deryaft is a tool for generating likely representation invariants of structurally complex data. Given a small set of concrete structures, Deryaft analyzes their key characteristics to formulate local and global properties that the structures exhibit. For effective formulation of …
We propose static program analysis techniques for identifying the impact of relational database schema changes upon object-oriented applications. We use dataflow analysis to extract all possible database interactions that an application may make. We then use this information to p…
The need for software is increasingly growing in the automotive industry. Software development projects are, however, often troubled by time and budget overruns, resulting in systems that do not fulfill customer requirements. Both research and industry lack strategies to combine …
WS-BPEL applications are a kind of service-oriented application. They use XPath extensively to integrate loosely-coupled workflow steps. However, XPath may extract wrong data from the XML messages received, resulting in erroneous results in the integrated process. Surprisingly, a…
Software Engineering is developing very fast. To keep up with the changes, software companies need effective methods of knowledge transfer. In the paper a 3-step approach to knowledge transfer, called Technical Drama, is presented. The paper is focused on transferring knowledge c…
We investigate relationships among software quality measures commonly used to assess the value of a technology, and several aspects of customer perceived quality measured by Interval Quality (IQ): a novel measure of the probability that a customer will observe a failure within a …
In this paper we present a comparative analysis of the predictive power of two different sets of metrics for defect prediction. We choose one set of product related and one set of process related software metrics and use them for classifying Java files of the Eclipse project as d…
Refactoring, the process of changing the structure of code without changing its behavior, can be semi-automated with the help of tools. However, many tools do a poor job of communicating errors triggered by the refactoring process. This poor communication causes programmers to re…
Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book that product quality is strongly affected by organization structure. Unfortunately there has been little empirical evidence…
Mutants are automatically-generated, possibly faulty variants of programs. The mutation adequacy ratio of a test suite is the ratio of non-equivalent mutants it is able to identify to the total number of non-equivalent mutants. This ratio can be used as a measure of test effectiv…
In automotive software and system design, explicit system and especially software models have only recently found their way into the development process. This paper will try to give an overview for what such models have so-far been used and which advantages they brought to vehicl…
In this paper we discuss the challenges of software quality for medical software and present some ideas for improving medical software quality requirements through software engineering methods. We apply the quality requirements engineering method MOQARE to elicit specific quality…
In avionics and other critical systems domains, adequacy of test suites is currently measured using the MC/DC metric on source code (or on a model in model-based development). We believe that the rigor of the MC/DC metric is highly sensitive to the structure of the implementation…
The increased use and interconnection of electronic components in automobiles has made communication behavior in automotive networks drastically more complex. Both communication designs at application level and complex communication scenarios are often under-specified or out of s…
Graphical models are omnipresent in the software engineering field, but most current graphical modeling languages do not scale with the increasing size and complexity of today’s systems. The navigation in the diagrams becomes a major problem especially if different aspects of the …
Many programming tools require information to be associated with source locations. Current tools do this in different ways with different degrees of effectiveness. This paper is an investigation into the various approaches to maintaining source locations. It is based on an experi…
Test-driven software development tackles the problem of operationally defining the features to be implemented by means of test cases. This approach was recently ported to the early development phase, when requirements are gathered and clarified. Among the existing proposals, Fit …
Peer review is seen as an important quality assurance mechanism in both industrial development and the open source software (OSS) community. The techniques for performing inspections have been well studied in industry; in OSS development, peer reviews are less well understood. We…