Classification-tree restructuring methodologies: a new perspective - Software, IEE Proceedings- [see also Software Engineering, IEE Proceedings]

Classification-tree restructuring methodologies: a new perspective

The classification-tree method developed by Grochtmann et al. provided a useful approach for constructing test cases from functional specifications. It was automated by Chen and Poon through their tree construction methodology. In a follow-up study, Chen and Poon found that the effectiveness of constructing legitimate test cases could be improved under certain circumstances via a classification...

Optimal restart times for moments of completion time - Software, IEE Proceedings- [see also Software Engineering, IEE Proceedings]

Restart is an application-level technique that speeds up jobs with highly variable completion times. The authors present an efficient iterative algorithm to determine the restart strategy that minimises higher moments of completion time, when the total number of restarts is finite. They demonstrate its computational efficiency in comparison with alternative algorithms. They also discuss fast ap...

Hardware compilation for software engineers: an ATM example

Talking about OSS: Making Sense of the Bazaar: 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering - Workshop Report

Modelling versions in collaborative work

This paper addresses the problem of version management for cooperative systems. We first describe a basic version model – a domain model capturing the idea of a version and the relationships between versions, whether electronic or physical, implicitly or explicitly stored. This is a ‘modal’ model in that it takes into account the context of use of these versions. The model is then extended to m...