Several companies use the amount of deliveries as a metric of performance evaluation of the developer. However, the productivity of a developer and his importance for the company is not only related to the amount of lines of code produced. There are a variety of factors that can contribute to the relevance of a developer for a team. This paper aims at mapping some of these factors, measuring th...

project was an interesting experience. I completed enough of the course to appreciate the data collection regimen and saw some of the benefits of enhanced predictability. (The sidebar on PSP training provides more background). Figure 1 shows the sequence of events from the start of training through the first two projects on which I used the PSP. Each diamond in the figure represents a milestone...

The subject of this paper is flowand context-insensitive pointer analysis. We present, for the first time, a fieldsensitive constraint-based analysis for C and evaluate its effects on time and precision. In addition, we study in detail four solving algorithms, including the Heintze-Tardieu solver, over 7 common C programs ranging in size from 5000 to 150,000 lines of code. Our results indicate ...

In this paper we review the conventional versions of nullmove pruning, and present our enhancements which allow for a deeper search with greater accuracy. While the conventional versions of nullmove pruning use reduction values of R ≤ 3, we use an aggressive reduction value of R = 4 within a verified adaptive configuration which maximizes the benefit from the more aggressive pruning, while limi...

An important characteristic of any software is its size. Frequently used metrics for measuring the size of software are source lines of code (SLOC) and function points. Lines of code are easy to count and seem unambiguous (but different definitions can cause variations of 500%). Function points are normally counted by certified professionals, which may introduce differences between counters. In...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for extracting optimal structure element for MST-based shape description. Speciically, we use tabu search to solve optimal structure element extraction problem for MST-based shape description. In the best of our knowledge, there is very little work on how to explore tabu search in computer vision. Our tabu search (TS) has a number of advantages: (1) TS a...

As hardware support for improved endhost security becomes ubiquitous, it is important to consider how network security and performance can benefit from these improvements. If endhosts (or at least portions of each endhost) can be trusted, then network infrastructure no longer needs to arduously and imprecisely reconstruct data already known by the endhosts. Through the design of a general-purpo...

Merging mechanism is an essential operation for version control systems. When each member of collaborative development works on an individual copy of the project, software merging allows to reconcile modifications made concurrently as well as managing software change through branching. The collaborative system is in charge to propose a merge result that includes user’s modifications. T h e u s ...

A short while ago I got my heart broken by a robot. Lost on a popular website I was offered direct chat assistance. The brief dialogue with a young woman named Lisa was highly entertaining. She expertly answered all my questions, we shared a few jokes and just as I was about to ask her out, it became obvious that as much as I had enjoyed our brief time together, we weren’t meant to be Lisa was ...

The foundation for any software system is its architecture. It defines the components and the relevant relations among them [1]. Software architecture and design analysis makes the quality of the architecture and design visible and palpable. This paper describes an approach we distilled from software architecture and design analysis in several industrial projects. It summarizes our experience a...