Aspect oriented programming has been proposed as a way to improve modularity of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. To do so, aspects specify where new functionality should apply using pointcuts. Unfortunately ...

Understanding the security goals provided by cryptographic protocol implementations is known to be difficult,since security requirements such as secrecy, integrity and authenticity of data are notoriously hard to establish, especially in the presence of ...

This article addresses the generation of traces to monitor the execution of distributed Java systems, and investigates the use of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) as the instrumentation strategy to get the necessary information at runtime. The overall ...

Object-oriented software is usually developed through evolutionary processes. To consistently evolve a system, developers have to understand the rationale behind its current design and the evolution trajectory that has led to it. In this paper, we ...

This paper presents an approach for comprehending large software systems using views that are created by subjecting the software systems to dynamic analysis under various use-case scenarios. Two sets of views are built from the runtime data: (1) graphs ...

As size and complexity of software systems increase, preserving the design and specification of their implementation structure gains importance in order to maintain the evolvability of the system. However, due to constant changes, the implementation ...

The documentation of a program often falls behind the evolution of the program source files. When this happens it may be attractive to shift the documentation mode from updating the documentation to documenting the evolution of the program. This paper ...

To remain competitive in the fast paced world of software development, managers must optimize the usage of their limited resources to deliver quality products on time and within budget. In this paper, we present an approach (The Top Ten List) which ...

Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been proposed to solve the evolution of APIs, most updates are done manually. To ...

Regression testing is an important part of software maintenance, but it can also be very expensive. To reduce this expense, software testers may prioritize their test cases so that those that are more important are run earlier in the regression testing ...

While often defined in informal ways, software cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. Cohesion measurement has been used for quality assessment, fault proneness prediction, software modularization, etc. Existing ...

Software testing is a critical part of software development. Test suite sizes may grow significantly with subsequent modifications to the software over time. Due to time and resource constraints for testing, test suite minimization techniques attempt to ...

During regression testing, a modified system is retested using the existing test suite. Because the size of the test suite may be very large, testers are interested in detecting faults in the system as early as possible during the retesting process. ...

This paper describes an approach and support tool for the modelling and analysis of proposed reconfigurations to complex systems. The configuration models used are quick to construct and can help to promote understanding by the various stakeholders ...

Distributed applications provide numerous advantages related to software performance, reliability, interoperability, and extensibility. This paper focuses on distributed Java programs built with the help of the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) mechanism. ...

This paper presents a SRGM (software reliability growth model) from testing to operation based on NHPP (nonhomogeneous Poisson process). Although a few research projects have been devoted to the differences between testing environment and operational ...

Ever since there has been software there has been software maintenance. Nothing in theory or practice indicates that this will change. This Tutorial presents the historical realities of software maintenance what it is, what it does, how it is done, and ...