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The Web has very rapidly become central to many applications in diverse areas. As our reliance on Web-based applications continues to increase and the Web systems supporting these applications become more complex, there is growing concern about the manner in which the Web-based s…
Extreme Programming is one of the most discussed subjects in the software development community. But what makes XP extreme? And how does it fit into the New World of agile methodologies? This tutorial will establish the underpinnings of agile methodology and explain why you might…
This abstract presents an approach to semi-automatically detect pattern instances and their implementations in a software system. Design patterns are currently best practice in software development and provide solutions for nearly all granularity of software design and makes them…
A method and a corresponding tool is described which assist design recovery and program understanding by recognising instances of design patterns semi-automatically. The approach taken is specifically designed to overcome the existing scalability problems caused by many design an…
In the recent past, a relevant effort has been devoted to the definition of process modeling languages (PMLs). The resulting languages and environments –although technically successful– did not receive much attention from industry. On the contrary, researchers and practitioners h…
In the recent years, software products have increased in size and complexity, becoming a critical and strategic asset in the organizations' business. In this scenario it is a challenge to obtain software products of quality under the time and resources constraints established in …
Two trends have made reuse of embedded software for consumer electronics an urgent issue: the software of individual products becomes more and more complex, and the market demands a larger variety of products at an increasing rate. For that reason, various business groups within …
Interest in the use of processes to provide assistance in software development activities remains at a high level. But the focus of attention has shifted in recent years. Early work emphasizing the study of languages for defining processes was rapidly eclipsed by process evaluati…
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We present a novel method for estimating the number of defects contained in a document using the results of an inspection of the document. The method is empirical, being based on observations made during past inspections of comparable documents. The method yields an interval esti…
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This research is an initial investigation into the development of the Holistic Framework for Software Engineering (HFSE), which establishes mechanisms by which existing software development tools and models can interoperate. The HFSE captures and uses dependency relationships amo…
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Much of the software we use for everyday purposes incorporates elements developed and maintained by someone other than the developer. These elements include not only code and databases but also dynamic data feeds from online data sources. Although everyday software is not mission…
The engineering of systems in the 21st century demands robust use of the systems approach given the nature of our times, as well as the systems being created. The global marketplace, changing competition dynamics, shorter life cycles, and increasing complexity characterize our en…
Existing approaches that are available to help software developers locate and manage the scattered implementation of concerns use a representation based on lines of source code. Because they do not explicitly express program structure, concern representations based on source code…
Many maintenance tasks address concerns, or features, that are not well modularized in the source code comprising a system. Existing approaches available to help software developers locate and manage scattered concerns use a representation based on lines of source code, complicat…
Program slicing combined with constraint solving is a powerful tool for software analysis. Path conditions are generated for a slice or chop, which --- when solved for the input variables --- deliver compact "witnesses" for dependences or illegal influences between program points…
Context-aware computing is characterized by the ability of a software system to continuously adapt its behavior to a changing environment over which it has little or no control. Previous work along these lines presumed a rather narrow definition of context, one that was centered …
Regression testing is an expensive testing process used to validate software following modifications. The cost-effectiveness of regression testing techniques varies with characteristics of test suites. One such characteristic, test suite granularity, involves the way in which tes…