Whenever developers choose among alternative technical approaches, they make a design
decision. Collectively, design decisions shape how software implements its requirements …

A software architecture manifests the major early design decisions. These early decisions
determine the system's development, deployment and evolution. Thus, making better …

User forums enable a large population of crowd‐users to publicly share their experience,
useful thoughts, and concerns about the software applications in the form of user reviews …

Despite the abundance of research on methodologies for the documentation of design
decisions and the evidence linking documentation to the improvement in the systems …

Software architectures are often constructed through a series of design decisions. In
particular, architectural tactics are selected to satisfy specific quality concerns such as …

Chat messages of development teams play an increasinglysignificant role in software
development, having replacedemails in some cases. Chat messages contain …

A novel method for line matching is proposed. The basic idea is to use tentative point
correspondences, which can be easily obtained by keypoint matching methods, to …

A successful implementation of the Model-Based Enterprise concept (MBE) requires
maximizing the potential benefits of annotated 3D models. The foundations of the MBE …

How can organizational factors such as structure and culture have an impact on the working
conditions of developers? This study is based on ten months of observation of an in-house …

Automatic Program Repair (APR) endeavors to autonomously rectify issues within specific
projects, which generally encompasses three categories of tasks: bug resolution, new …