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All software systems, no matter how they are designed, are subject to continuous evolution and maintenance activities to eliminate defects and extend their functionalities. This is particularly true for object-oriented systems, where we may develop different software systems usin…
Several new modularity technologies have been proposed that improve separation of concerns in programming languages. The initial efforts to demonstrate these technologies are usually focused on a single programming language. Since we live in a polyglot world, this proposal addres…
Software maintenance and evolution are the dominant activities in the software lifecycle. Modularization can separate design decisions and allow them to be independently revolved, but modularization often breaks down and complicated global changes are required. Tool support can r…
Discussions of the role of mathematics in software engineering are common and have probably not changed much over the last few decades. There is now much discussion about the "intuitive" nature of software construction and analogies are drawn (falsely) with graphic design, (conve…
We present a foundational theory of software system reliability based on components. The theory describes how component developers can design and test their components to produce measurements that are later used by system designers to calculate composite system reliability, witho…
Global software development is rapidly becoming the norm for technology companies. Previous qualitative research suggests that multi-site development may increase the development cycle time. We use both survey data and data from the source code change management system to model t…
Frameworks are usually large and complex, and typically reusers need to understand them well enough to effectively use them. This research concentrates on verifying applications built on top of OO frameworks. The idea is to get framework builders to specify a set of constraints f…
The current suite of systems that offer client/server capabilities for document versioning relies on proprietary protocols for communicating between a central versioning repository and a remote client. In order to support better document authoring via the Web, the DeltaV working …
Describes the application of the WinWin paradigm to identify and resolve conflicts in a series of real-client, student-developer digital library projects. The paper is based on a case study of the statistical analysis of 15 projects and an in-depth analysis of one representative …
Survivability is the ability of a system to continue operating despite the presence of abnormal events such as failures and intrusions. Ensuring system survivability has increased in importance as critical infrastructures have become heavily dependent on computers. We present a s…