How many millions of lines of code written for business applications more than 20 years ago are still being sustained for a variety of political and financial reasons—and at what risk and cost? Many of those legacy applications have been maintained with various forms of IT life support—emulators, code wrappers, virtualization—far too long, and should have been allowed to die a natural death yea...

pharmacy, being a profession which its activities are directly related to the health and wellbeing of the people and soci­ety has been described an ethical profession from earliest time. in the recent decades there has been a shift in the phar­macist role from dispensing to relationship with patients and health care providers and interfere the therapeutic process. other branches of pharmacy suc...

The objective of the experiment presented in this paper is to bring insights in the evaluation of the potential benefits of introducing a function clone detection technology in an industrial software development process. To take advantage of function clone detection, two modifications to the software development process are presented. Our experiment consists in evaluating the impact that these ...

Unter Code-Quality-Management (CQM) wird im Allgemeinen die Sicherstellung technischer Qualität in SW-Systemen verstanden. Da diese niemals perfekt sondern nur graduell vorliegt, ist eine Herausforderung bei der Identifikation technischer Risiken das Belegen deren Signifikanz. Bei Systemgrößen von mehreren Millionen Lines of Code und mehreren tausend Klassen, wie sie für die T-Mobile mit ihren ...

We present an industrial strength static analysis tool for automated bug detection in C/C++ source code called GoannaSMT. The underlying technology of GoannaSMT is an automata-based approach to static analysis, where high-level syntactic source code abstractions are subjected to a custom-built explicit state model checker. Resulting error traces are then subjected to an SMT solver in a path-ref...

This position paper addresses the measurement of software reuse from a functional perspective rather than from a technical perspective. Many studies have observed that the potential for reuse in software goes far beyond the reuse of source lines of code and includes data, architecture , design, program and common subsystem modules, documentation, test data and various intangibles. These issues ...

Auf früheren Workshops wurde über ARNO, ein großes industrielles Migrationsprojekt, berichtet. In diesem Projekt haben wir erfolgreich eine Onlinetransaktionapplikation / Realtimeapplikation von BS2000 nach Solaris migriert. Die aus mehr als 6 Millionen Lines of Code bestehende Applikation wurde von SPL (PL1 Subset) nach C++, die mehr als 5000 Jobs von SDF nach Perl und das hochperformante File...

In two decades the web became a standard framework for Internet applications. This involved changing from an initially simple hypermedia access platform to a complex blob of different technologies. This complexity associated to the increasing filtering of TCP/UDP ports everywhere in the Internet, turned web applications into favourite targets for cyber-criminals. The Web Application Protection ...

nursing is a universal health care necessity. nursing profession, similar to the other medical professions, is responsible to maintain public health promotion, prevent diseases, and also care and rehabilitate client, family and the soci¬ety. the inher-ent nature of nursing is respect for moral values and human rights. however, clinical ethical dilem¬mas occur for nurses at all levels, not alway...