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In recent years, Software has become an indispensable part of every segment from simple Office Automation to Space Technology and E-mail to E-commerce. The evolution in Software architecture is always an open issue for researchers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-04 U. S. Poornima , V. Suma

Type systems provide software developers immediate feedback about a subset of correctness properties of their programs. IDE integrations often take advantage of type systems to present errors, suggest completions and even improve…

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This paper presents results from the MSR 2021 Hackathon. Our team investigates files/projects that contain known security vulnerabilities and how widespread they are throughout repositories in open source software. These security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 David Reid , Kalvin Eng , Chris Bogart , Adam Tutko

Software reuse enables developers to reuse architecture, programs and other software artifacts. Realizing a systematical reuse in software brings a large amount of benefits for stakeholders, including lower maintenance efforts, lower…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yutian Tang , Hao Zhou , Zhou Xu , Xiapu Luo , Yan Cai , Tao Zhang

We present an open architecture for just-in-time code generation and dynamic code optimization that is flexible, customizable, and extensible. While previous research has primarily investigated functional aspects of such a system,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Kistler , Michael Franz

The main problems of Software Engineering appear as a result of incompatibilities. For example, the quality of organization of the production process depends on correspondence with existent resources and on a common understanding of project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Kirill A Sorudeykin

Software Engineering is a constantly evolving subject area that faces new challenges every day as it tries to automate newer business processes. One of the key challenges to the success of a software solution is attaining sustainability.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Asif Imran , Tevfik Kosar

Software systems endure many noteworthy changes throughout their life-cycle in order to follow the evolution of the problem domains. Generally, the software system architecture cannot follow the rapid evolution of a problem domain which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Humaira Farid , Farooque Azam , M. Aqeel Iqbal

It is a high-quality algorithm for hierarchical clustering of large software source code. This effectively allows to break the complexity of tens of millions lines of source code, so that a human software engineer can comprehend a software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Sarge Rogatch

The fact that the number of users of open source software (OSS) is practically un-limited and that ultimately the software quality is determined by end users experience, makes the usability an even more critical quality attribute than it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Arif Raza , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Open Source Software (OSS) security and resilience are worldwide phenomena hampering economic and technological innovation. OSS vulnerabilities can cause unauthorized access, data breaches, network disruptions, and privacy violations,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manual , Murtuza Jadliwala , Peyman Najafirad

This study investigates the impact of software design model capabilities and data structure algorithm abilities on microservices architecture design within enterprises. Utilizing a qualitative methodology, the research involved in-depth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jun Cui

The evolution of quantum hardware is highlighting the need for advances in quantum software engineering that help developers create quantum software with good quality attributes. Specifically, reusability has been traditionally considered…

Context. Code refactoring improves software quality without changing external behavior. Despite its advantages, its benefits are hindered by the considerable cost of time, resources, and continuous effort it demands. Aim. Understanding why…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mikel Robredo , Matteo Esposito , Fabio Palomba , Rafael Peñaloza , Valentina Lenarduzzi

Motivation: The question of what combination of attributes drives the adoption of a particular software technology is critical to developers. It determines both those technologies that receive wide support from the community and those which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yuxing Ma , Audris Mockus , Beth Milhollin , Russel Zaretzki , Randy Bradley , Bogdan Bichescu

Software vulnerabilities often persist or re-emerge even after being fixed, revealing the complex interplay between code evolution and socio-technical factors. While source code metrics provide useful indicators of vulnerabilities, software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Samiha Shimmi , Nicholas M. Synovic , Mona Rahimi , George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer systems are so complex, so they are usually designed and analyzed in terms of layers of abstraction. Complexity is still a challenge facing logical reasoning tools that are used to find software design flaws and implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ramy Shahin

Software architecture decision-making is critical to the success of a software system as software architecture sets the structure of the system, determines its qualities, and has far-reaching consequences throughout the system life cycle.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Sandun Dasanayake , Jouni Markkula , Sanja Aaramaa , Markku Oivo

In this paper, we describe our experience implementing some of classic software engineering metrics using Boa - a large-scale software repository mining platform - and its dedicated language. We also aim to take an advantage of the Boa…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Agnieszka Patalas , Wojciech Cichowski , Michał Malinka , Wojciech Stępniak , Piotr Maćkowiak , Lech Madeyski

This paper is an introductory discussion on the cause of open source software vulnerabilities, their importance in the cybersecurity ecosystem, and a selection of detection methods. A recent application security report showed 44% of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Stuart Millar