This extensively classroom-tested text takes an innovative approach to explaining software
testing that defines it as the process of applying a few precise, general-purpose criteria to a …

It is widely believed that refactoring improves software quality and developer productivity.
However, few empirical studies quantitatively assess refactoring benefits or investigate …

Context The integration of feature models has been widely investigated in the last decades,
given its pivotal role for supporting the evolution of software product lines. Unfortunately …

In a test suite, all the test cases should be independent: no test should affect any other test's
result, and running the tests in any order should produce the same test results. Techniques …

A goal of software engineering research is advancing software quality and the success of
the software engineering process. However, while recent studies have demonstrated a new …

Natural walking can provide a compelling experience in immersive virtual environments, but
it remains an implementation challenge due to the physical space constraints imposed on …

The Linux kernel follows an extremely distributed reviewing and integration process
supported by 130 developer mailing lists and a hierarchy of dozens of Git repositories for …

JavaScript is growing explosively and is now used in large mature projects even outside the
web domain. JavaScript is also a dynamically typed language for which static type systems …

The release engineering process is the process that brings high quality code changes from
a developer's workspace to the end user, encompassing code change integration …

The recent growth in the mobile device market has proven the feasibility of mobile storage
based consumer electronics products. One of the key features of personal mobile storage …