Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Architecture: Framing Stakeholders' Concerns

Software Maintenance Guest Editors' Introduction

M s ^ aintenance literature in the not decrease turnover among maintainers, maintainers; and keeping programmer mid-1970's to early 1980's (3) much has, in fact, been done and turnover low. At a different level, corporaA.ts tried to define software written about software maintenance, and tions rely on maintenance to keep their maintenance and determine whether the (4) the industry-wide money-sa...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Evolution

After two decades of growing interest in software evolution and related topics (see the sidebar “Software Evolution Concepts and Terminology”), many research groups are now working in this area and producing a growing body of knowledge (see the sidebar “Related References and Further Reading”). In May 2010, Google Scholar reported that for 2009, 70 publications had “software evolution” in the t...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Next Generation Software Reuse

—————————— ✦ —————————— ncreasing levels of software reuse constitute one of the most pervasive and profound influences in software engineering today. Technological innovations (e.g., objectoriented languages, distributed object models, domain specific languages) and process innovations (e.g., domain modeling, architectural analysis, reuse metrics) are enabling organizations to meet ever-more s...

Guest editors introduction: Context for software developers

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...