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Fine-grained change impact analysis for component-based product families 对基于组件的产品族进行细粒度的变更影响分析

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405262

A. Yazdanshenas, L. Moonen

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引用次数: 15

Refactoring meets spreadsheet formulas 重构符合电子表格公式

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405299

Sandro Badame, Danny Dig

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引用次数: 63

MARBLE: Modernization approach for recovering business processes from legacy information systems MARBLE:用于从遗留信息系统中恢复业务流程的现代化方法

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405351

Ricardo Pérez-Castillo

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引用次数: 16

Assessing the effect of requirements traceability for software maintenance 评估需求可追溯性对软件维护的影响

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405269

Patrick Mäder, Alexander Egyed

引用次数: 52

MOTCP: A tool for the prioritization of test cases based on a sorting genetic algorithm and Latent Semantic Indexing MOTCP:基于排序遗传算法和潜在语义索引的测试用例优先级排序工具

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405346

Md. Mahfuzul Islam, A. Marchetto, A. Susi, G. Scanniello

引用次数: 12

An empirical study of build system migrations in practice: Case studies on KDE and the Linux kernel 构建系统迁移在实践中的实证研究:KDE和Linux内核的案例研究

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405267

R. Suvorov, M. Nagappan, A. Hassan, Ying Zou, Bram Adams

{"title":"An empirical study of build system migrations in practice: Case studies on KDE and the Linux kernel","authors":"R. Suvorov, M. Nagappan, A. Hassan, Ying Zou, Bram Adams","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405267","url":null,"abstract":"As the build system, i.e. the infrastructure that constructs executable deliverables out of source code and other resources, tries to catch up with the ever-evolving source code base, its size and already significant complexity keep on growing. Recently, this has forced some major software projects to migrate their build systems towards more powerful build system technologies. Since at all times software developers, testers and QA personnel rely on a functional build system to do their job, a build system migration is a risky and possibly costly undertaking, yet no methodology, nor best practices have been devised for it. In order to understand the build system migration process, we empirically studied two failed and two successful attempts of build system migration in two major open source projects, i.e. Linux and KDE, by mining source code repositories and tens of thousands of developer mailing list messages. The major contributions of this paper are: (a) isolating the phases of a common methodology for build system migrations, which is similar to the spiral model for source code development (multiple iterations of a waterfall process); (b) identifying four of the major challenges associated with this methodology: requirements gathering, communication issues, performance vs. complexity of build system code, and effective evaluation of build system prototypes; (c) detailed analysis of the first challenge, i.e., requirements gathering for the new build system, which revealed that the failed migrations did not gather requirements rigorously. Based on our findings, practitioners will be able to make more informed decisions about migrating their build system, potentially saving them time and money.","PeriodicalId":348790,"journal":{"name":"2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124321907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 30

Finding errors from reverse-engineered equality models using a constraint solver 使用约束求解器从逆向工程等式模型中查找错误

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405256

C. R. Rupakheti, Daqing Hou

引用次数: 6

Facilitating enterprise software developer communication with CARES 促进企业软件开发人员与CARES的沟通

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405317

Anja Guzzi, Andrew Begel, Jessica K. Miller, Krishnamohan Nareddy

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引用次数: 12

Refactoring in the presence of annotations 在有注解的情况下进行重构

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405291

Carlos Noguera, Andy Kellens, Coen De Roover, V. Jonckers

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引用次数: 4

A cost model based on software maintainability 基于软件可维护性的成本模型

2012 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405288

Tibor Bakota, Péter Hegedüs, Gergely Ladányi, Peter Kortvelyesi, R. Ferenc, T. Gyimóthy

引用次数: 52