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1A Generative Model of Software Dependency Graphs to Better Understand Software Evolution

by Vincenzo Musco, Martin Monperrus
"... Abstract—Software systems are composed of many interacting elements. A natural way to abstract over software systems is to model them as graphs. In this paper we consider software dependency graphs of object-oriented software and we study one topological property: the degree distribution. Based on t ..."
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on the analysis of ten software systems written in Java, we show that there exists completely different systems that have the same degree distribution. Then, we propose a generative model of software dependency graphs which synthesizes graphs whose degree distribution is close to the empirical ones observed

Software maintenance and evolution: A roadmap

by Keith Bennett, Vaclav Rajlich, K. H. Bennett - The Future of Software Engineering , 2000
"... The production of new management approaches to evolution, leading to better understanding of the relationships between technology and business. How can software be designed so that it can easily be evolved? More effective tools and methods for program comprehension for both code and data A better fo ..."
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The production of new management approaches to evolution, leading to better understanding of the relationships between technology and business. How can software be designed so that it can easily be evolved? More effective tools and methods for program comprehension for both code and data A better

Dissecting android malware: Characterization and evolution

by Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang - In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy , 2012
"... Abstract—The popularity and adoption of smartphones has greatly stimulated the spread of mobile malware, especially on the popular platforms such as Android. In light of their rapid growth, there is a pressing need to develop effective solutions. However, our defense capability is largely constraine ..."
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-anisms as well as the nature of carried malicious payloads. The characterization and a subsequent evolution-based study of representative families reveal that they are evolving rapidly to circumvent the detection from existing mobile anti-virus software. Based on the evaluation with four representative mobile

Towards a better understanding of software evolution: An empirical study on open source software

by Guowu Xie, Jianbo Chen, Iulian Neamtiu - in ICSM, 2009
"... Software evolution is a fact of life. Over the past thirty years, researchers have proposed hypotheses on how software changes, and provided evidence that both supports and refutes these hypotheses. To paint a clearer image of the software evolution process, we performed an empirical study on long s ..."
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Software evolution is a fact of life. Over the past thirty years, researchers have proposed hypotheses on how software changes, and provided evidence that both supports and refutes these hypotheses. To paint a clearer image of the software evolution process, we performed an empirical study on long

ADG: Annotated Dependency Graphs for Software Understanding

by Ahmed E. Hassan , Richard C. Holt , 2003
"... Dependency graphs such as call and data usage graphs are often used to study software systems and perform impact analysis during maintenance activities. These graphs show the present structure of the software system (e.g. In a compiler, an Optimizer function calling a Parser function). They fail to ..."
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Dependency graphs such as call and data usage graphs are often used to study software systems and perform impact analysis during maintenance activities. These graphs show the present structure of the software system (e.g. In a compiler, an Optimizer function calling a Parser function). They fail

Graph-Based Analysis and Prediction for Software Evolution

by Pamela Bhattacharya, Marios Iliofotou, Iulian Neamtiu, Michalis Faloutsos
"... Abstract—We exploit recent advances in analysis of graph topology to better understand software evolution, and to construct predictors that facilitate software development and maintenance. Managing an evolving, collaborative software system is a complex and expensive process, which still cannot ensu ..."
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Abstract—We exploit recent advances in analysis of graph topology to better understand software evolution, and to construct predictors that facilitate software development and maintenance. Managing an evolving, collaborative software system is a complex and expensive process, which still cannot

Software Interconnection Models

by Dewayne E. Perry - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering , 1987
"... We present a formulation of interconnection models and present the unit and syntactic models --- the primary models used for managing the evolution of large software systems. We discuss various tools that use these models and evaluate how well these models support the management of system evolution. ..."
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, to the predicates that define aspects of behavior) we provide tools that are better suited to manage the details of evolution in software systems and that provide a better understanding of the implications of changes. We do this by using the semantic interconnection model to formalize the semantics of program

Software Graphs and Programmer Awareness

by Gareth Baxter, Marcus Frean , 2008
"... Dependencies between types in object-oriented software can be viewed as directed graphs, with types as nodes and dependencies as edges. The in-degree and out-degree distributions of such graphs have quite different forms, with the former resembling a power-law distribution and the latter an exponent ..."
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Dependencies between types in object-oriented software can be viewed as directed graphs, with types as nodes and dependencies as edges. The in-degree and out-degree distributions of such graphs have quite different forms, with the former resembling a power-law distribution and the latter

Graph Traverse Software Pipelining

by Cristina Barrado, Eduard Ayguadé, Jesús Labarta , 1998
"... Software pipelining is becoming widely used as a loop execution model for microprocessors supporting a high instruction level parallelism. In this paper we describe a heuristic method for software pipelining, named Graph Traverse Software Pipelining (GTSP), that divides the scheduling problem in two ..."
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Software pipelining is becoming widely used as a loop execution model for microprocessors supporting a high instruction level parallelism. In this paper we describe a heuristic method for software pipelining, named Graph Traverse Software Pipelining (GTSP), that divides the scheduling problem

Graph Exploration for Software Archeology

by Mark A. Foltz
"... The Problem: Program comprehension and reverse engineering (i.e., software archeology) remains a major bottleneck for software maintenance. When a programmer must understand a large legacy program whose documentation is scarce, out-of-date, or irrelevant, she must browse its source code to build an ..."
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The Problem: Program comprehension and reverse engineering (i.e., software archeology) remains a major bottleneck for software maintenance. When a programmer must understand a large legacy program whose documentation is scarce, out-of-date, or irrelevant, she must browse its source code to build
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