Search Results - "Proceedings. Conference on Software Maintenance, 1988"

An incremental approach to unit testing during maintenance by Harrold, M.J., Souffa, M.L.

“…An incremental testing system to aid in unit testing during the maintenance stage is described. Based on data-flow testing, the system is designed for use in a…”
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Post-maintenance testing based on path change analysis by Benedusi, P., Cmitile, A., De Carlini, U.

“…A post-maintenance testing strategy based on path-change analysis is presented. This analysis is based on an underlying algebraic representation of the design…”
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Software maintenance life cycle by Chapin, N.

“…The common view in the software field is to regard the software maintenance life cycle (SMLC) as being essentially the same as the life cycle for software…”
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Inverse transformation of software from code to specification by Sneed, H.M., Jandrasics, G.

“…A description is given of a schema supported by automated tools for the retranslation of software code back into an application specification by the process of…”
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Error localization during software maintenance: generating hierarchical system descriptions from the source code alone by Selby, R.W., Basili, V.R.

“…An empirical study is presented that investigates hierarchical software system descriptions that are based on measures of cohesion and coupling. The study…”
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Approaches to regression testing by Hartmann, J., Robson, D.J.

“…An examination is made of current testing methodologies and their relationship to regression testing. Included is a survey and critical assessment of current…”
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Classifying software maintenance by Lin, I.-H., Gustafson, D.A.

“…A revision is presented of E.B. Swanson's classification scheme for software maintenance (1976). The proposed classification system can be objectively…”
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PAT: a knowledge-based program analysis tool by Harandi, M.T., Ning, J.Q.

“…The authors address the use of knowledge-based techniques in providing high-level support for program understanding and debugging activities. An intelligent…”
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A model based on software quality factors which predicts maintainability by Wake, S., Henry, S.

“…Software quality metric were developed to measure the complexity of software systems. The authors relate the complexity of the system as measured by software…”
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Data flow analysis and its application to software maintenance by Keables, J., Roberson, K., von Mayrhauser, A.

“…Algorithms are presented that limit the scope of recalculation of data-flow information for representative program changes. A prototype data-flow analysis…”
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Software maintenance: a profile of past empirical research by Hale, D.P., Haworth, D.A.

“…The authors examine empirical software maintenance research reported from 1978 through 1987 and categorize the research according to placement, origin, and…”
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Redocumenting software systems using hypertext technology by Fletton, N.T., Munro, M.

“…The majority of software maintenance activity is performed on systems that are poorly documented and were built without the benefit of modern design practices…”
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Using program decomposition to guide modifications by Lyle, J.R., Gallagher, K.B.

“…The authors use data-flow techniques to form a notion of direct sum decomposition for programs. The decomposition yields a method and guidelines for software…”
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A rule-based approach to the construction and evolution of business information systems by Layzell, P.J., Loucopoulos, P.

“…The authors demonstrate an approach to software development known as RUBRIC, which recognizes that a particular class of system, namely, business information…”
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Documentation in a software maintenance environment by Landis, L.D., Hyland, P.M., Gilbert, A.L., Fine, A.J.

“…An approach has been defined, and a system developed, to aid the maintenance programmer by producing documentation from source code input. A system called the…”
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Documentation for maintenance: a hypertext design by Blum, B.I.

“…A design for a hypertext system that manages software documentation for maintenance purposes is presented. A brief overview of hypertext is given, followed by…”
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CAMOTE-computer aided module testing and design environment by Dogsa, T., Rozman, I.

“…A description is given of the software testing and developing environment CAMOTE, which supports module design and testing. The emphasis is on the unit…”
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A practical software maintenance environment by Collofello, J.S., Orn, M.

“…A research project is described, the objective of which is the development of a practical software maintenance environment. The existing functional…”
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On analytic maintenance process data at the global and the detailed levels: a case study by Chong Hok Yuen, C.K.S.

“…Concerns the empirical analysis of data collected during the maintenance phase of a large operating system. The data concern notices that are issued to the…”
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Visual support for programming-in-the-large by Rajlich, V., Damaskinos, N., Linos, P., Silva, J., Khorsid, W.

“…A brief description of the VIFOR (visual interactive Fortran) environment is given. VIFOR is based on a simple, but effective data model of Fortran programs…”
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