Information & Software Technology, Volume 53

Volume 53, Number 1, January 2011

Editorial Article

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  Claes Wohlin:
  Taking novelty to a new level. 1

Review Article

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  Emelie Engström, Per Runeson:
  Software product line testing - A systematic mapping study. 2-13

Regular Articles

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  Olfa Mosbahi, Leila Jemni Ben Ayed, Mohamed Khalgui:
  A formal approach for the development of reactive systems. 14-33
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  Eladio Domínguez, Jorge Lloret, Beatriz Pérez, Áurea Rodríguez, Ángel Luis Rubio, María Antonia Zapata:
  Evolution of XML schemas and documents from stereotyped UML class models: A traceable approach. 34-50
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  Jonathan Lee, Yu Chin Cheng:
  Change the face of software engineering education: A field report from Taiwan. 51-57
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  Kevin Vlaanderen, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Erik Jaspers:
  The agile requirements refinery: Applying SCRUM principles to software product management. 58-70
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  Marco Torchiano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Filippo Ricca, Andrea De Lucia, Filippo Lanubile:
  Migration of information systems in the Italian industry: A state of the practice survey. 71-86
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  Valeria de Castro, Esperanza Marcos, Juan M. Vara:
  Applying CIM-to-PIM model transformations for the service-oriented development of information systems. 87-105
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  Jooyoung Seo, Byoungju Choi, Suengwan Yang:
  A profiling method by PCB hooking and its application for memory fault detection in embedded system operational test. 106-119

Volume 53, Number 2, February 2011

Regular Articles

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  Leonardo P. Tizzei, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Cecília M. F. Rubira, Alessandro Garcia, Jaejoon Lee:
  Components meet aspects: Assessing design stability of a software product line. 121-136
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  Wen-Hsiang Shen, Nien-Lin Hsueh, Wei-Mann Lee:
  Assessing PSP effect in training disciplined software development: A Plan-Track-Review model. 137-148
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  Charlie C. Chen, Julie Yu-Chih Liu, Houn-Gee Chen:
  Discriminative effect of user influence and user responsibility on information system development processes and project management. 149-158
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  Katarina Grolinger, Miriam A. M. Capretz:
  A unit test approach for database schema evolution. 159-170

Volume 53, Number 3, March 2011

Review Article

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  Marcos Palacios, José García-Fanjul, Javier Tuya:
  Testing in Service Oriented Architectures with dynamic binding: A mapping study. 171-189

Regular Articles

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  Lars Grunske:
  An effective sequential statistical test for probabilistic monitoring. 190-199
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  Miroslaw Ochodek, Jerzy R. Nawrocki, K. Kwarciak:
  Simplifying effort estimation based on Use Case Points. 200-213
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  Ludwik Kuzniarz, Lefteris Angelis:
  Empirical extension of a classification framework for addressing consistency in model based development. 214-229
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  Wei-Jin Park, Doo-Hwan Bae:
  A two-stage framework for UML specification matching. 230-244
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  Sergio Segura, Robert M. Hierons, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Automated metamorphic testing on the analyses of feature models. 245-258
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  Margarita André Ampuero, María G. Baldoquín de la Peña, Silvia Teresita Acuña Castillo:
  Formal model for assigning human resources to teams in software projects. 259-275
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  Maarit Laanti, Outi Salo, Pekka Abrahamsson:
  Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation. 276-290

Corrigendum Article

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  Salah Bouktif, Faheem Ahmed, Issa Khalil, Giuliano Antoniol:
  Corrigendum to "A novel composite model approach to improve software quality prediction" [Information and Software Technology 52 (12) (2010) 1298-1311]. 291

Volume 53, Number 4, April 2011

Special Section Editorial

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  W. Eric Wong:
  Special section editorial - Software Engineering track of the 24th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing. 293
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  Otávio Augusto Lazzarini Lemos, Sushil Krishna Bajracharya, Joel Ossher, Paulo César Masiero, Cristina Videira Lopes:
  A test-driven approach to code search and its application to the reuse of auxiliary functionality. 294-306
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  Chih-Hung Chang, Chih-Wei Lu, Pao-Ann Hsiung:
  Pattern-based framework for modularized software development and evolution robustness. 307-316

Review Articles

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  Kai Petersen:
  Measuring and predicting software productivity: A systematic map and review. 317-343
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  Lianping Chen, Muhammad Ali Babar:
  A systematic review of evaluation of variability management approaches in software product lines. 344-362
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  Sarah Smith Heckman, Laurie A. Williams:
  A systematic literature review of actionable alert identification techniques for automated static code analysis. 363-387

Regular Articles

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  Danielle Azar, Joseph Vybihal:
  An ant colony optimization algorithm to improve software quality prediction models: Case of class stability. 388-393
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  Jon Iden, Bjørnar Tessem, Tero Päivärinta:
  Problems in the interplay of development and IT operations in system development projects: A Delphi study of Norwegian IT experts. 394-406

Volume 53, Number 5, May 2011

Review Articles

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  Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Ivan do Carmo Machado, John D. McGregor, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira:
  A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing. 407-423
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  Stephen Lane, Ita Richardson:
  Process models for service-based applications: A systematic literature review. 424-439
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  Daniela S. Cruzes, Tore Dybå:
  Research synthesis in software engineering: A tertiary study. 440-455

Regular Articles

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  Mark Strembeck, Jan Mendling:
  Modeling process-related RBAC models with extended UML activity models. 456-483
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  Hongsuk Lee, Kihyun Chung, Hyunsang Park, Kyunghee Choi:
  Modeling software requirement with timing diagram and Simulink Stateflow. 484-493
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  Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicente J. Botti:
  Evaluating software engineering techniques for developing complex systems with multiagent approaches. 494-506

Special Section Editorial

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  Tore Dybå:
  Special Section on Best Papers from XP2010. 507-508
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  Juhani Iivari, Netta Iivari:
  The relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of agile methods. 509-520
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  Rashina Hoda, James Noble, Stuart Marshall:
  The impact of inadequate customer collaboration on self-organizing Agile teams. 521-534
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  Kieran Conboy, Lorraine Morgan:
  Beyond the customer: Opening the agile systems development process. 535-542
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  Richard L. Baskerville, Jan Pries-Heje, Sabine Madsen:
  Post-agility: What follows a decade of agility? 543-555

Volume 53, Number 6, June 2011

Regular Articles

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  Matjaz Pancur, Mojca Ciglaric:
  Impact of test-driven development on productivity, code and tests: A controlled experiment. 557-573
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  Akos Szoke:
  Conceptual scheduling model and optimized release scheduling for agile environments. 574-591
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  Kuo-Chung Chang, Jiun-Hung Wong, Yuzhu Li, Yao-Chin Lin, Houn-Gee Chen:
  External social capital and information systems development team flexibility. 592-600
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  Jian Feng Cui, Heung Seok Chae:
  Applying agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithms to component identification for legacy systems. 601-614

Special Section: EASE 2010

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  Mahmood Niazi, Mark Turner:
  Guest Editorial: Special section on the selected papers from 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2010). 615
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  Martin Höst, Alma Orucevic-Alagic:
  A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development. 616-624
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  He Zhang, Muhammad Ali Babar, Paolo Tell:
  Identifying relevant studies in software engineering. 625-637
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  Barbara A. Kitchenham, David Budgen, O. Pearl Brereton:
  Using mapping studies as the basis for further research - A participant-observer case study. 638-651

Special Section: Best papers from the APSEC

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  Sooyong Park, Shamsul Sahibuddin:
  Guest Editors' introduction to the special section of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2009). 653
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  Ju Qian, Lin Chen, Baowen Xu, Xiaofang Zhang:
  Contribution-based call stack abstraction for call string based pointer analysis. 654-665
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  In-Gwon Song, Sang-Uk Jeon, Ah-Rim Han, Doo-Hwan Bae:
  An approach to identifying causes of implied scenarios using unenforceable orders. 666-681
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  Vu Nguyen, Barry W. Boehm, Phongphan Danphitsanuphan:
  A controlled experiment in assessing and estimating software maintenance tasks. 682-691

Volume 53, Number 7, July 2011

Review Article

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  Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad:
  Barriers in the selection of offshore software development outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review. 693-706

Regular Articles

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  Xin Peng, Yijun Yu, Wenyun Zhao:
  Analyzing evolution of variability in a software product line: From contexts and requirements to features. 707-721
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  Julie Yu-Chih Liu, Jerry C. Chiang, Ming-Hsien Yang, Gary Klein:
  Partnering effects on user-developer conflict and role ambiguity in information system projects. 722-729
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  Austen Rainer:
  The longitudinal, chronological case study research strategy: A definition, and an example from IBM Hursley Park. 730-746
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  Salmi Baharom, Zarina Shukur:
  An experimental assessment of module documentation-based testing. 747-760
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  Yuanyuan Zhang, Mark Harman, Anthony Finkelstein, S. Afshin Mansouri:
  Comparing the performance of metaheuristics for the analysis of multi-stakeholder tradeoffs in requirements optimisation. 761-773
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  Seyed Reza Shahamiri, Wan Mohd Nasir Wan-Kadir, Suhaimi Ibrahim, Siti Zaiton Mohd Hashim:
  An automated framework for software test oracle. 774-788

Volume 53, Number 8, August 2011

Review Article

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  Adrian Fernandez, Emilio Insfrán, Silvia Abrahão:
  Usability evaluation methods for the web: A systematic mapping study. 789-817

Regular Articles

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  Woongsik Choi, Kwang-Moo Choe:
  Cycle elimination for invocation graph-based context-sensitive pointer analysis. 818-833
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  Javier García, Antonio de Amescua Seco, María Isabel Sánchez Segura, Leonardo Bermón-Angarita:
  Design guidelines for software processes knowledge repository development. 834-850
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  Inah Omoronyia, Guttorm Sindre, Tor Stålhane:
  Exploring a Bayesian and linear approach to requirements traceability. 851-871

Special Section: Advances in functional size measurement and effort estimation - Extended best papers

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  Ales Zivkovic, Çigdem Gencel, Alain Abran:
  Guest editorial: Advances in functional size measurement and effort estimation - Extended best papers. 873
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  Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca:
  Convertibility of Function Points into COSMIC Function Points: A study using Piecewise Linear Regression. 874-884
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  Miroslaw Ochodek, Bartosz Alchimowicz, Jakub Jurkiewicz, Jerzy R. Nawrocki:
  Improving the reliability of transaction identification in use cases. 885-897

Volume 53, Number 9, September 2011

Review Article

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  Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Andre Luís de Medeiros Santos, Sérgio Soares, A. César C. França, Cleviton V. F. Monteiro, Felipe Farias Maciel:
  Six years of systematic literature reviews in software engineering: An updated tertiary study. 899-913

Regular Articles

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  Jehad Al-Dallal:
  Improving the applicability of object-oriented class cohesion metrics. 914-928
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  Xiang Li, Yan-Fu Li, Min Xie, Szu Hui Ng:
  Reliability analysis and optimal version-updating for open source software. 929-936
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  Remco M. Dijkman, Beat Gfeller, Jochen Malte Küster, Hagen Völzer:
  Identifying refactoring opportunities in process model repositories. 937-948

Special Section: Studying Work Practices in Global Software Engineering

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  Gabriela Avram, Volker Wulf:
  Guest editorial: Studying work practices in Global Software Engineering. 949-954
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  Aditya Johri:
  Sociomaterial bricolage: The creation of location-spanning work practices by global software developers. 955-968
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  Sameer Patil, Alfred Kobsa, Ajita John, Dorée D. Seligmann:
  Methodological reflections on a field study of a globally distributed software project. 969-980
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  Anders Sigfridsson, Anne Sheehan:
  On qualitative methodologies and dispersed communities: Reflections on the process of investigating an open source community. 981-993
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  Tony Clear, Stephen G. MacDonell:
  Understanding technology use in global virtual teams: Research methodologies and methods. 994-1011
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  Alexander Boden, Claudia Müller, Bernhard Nett:
  Conducting a Business Ethnography in Global Software Development projects of small German enterprises. 1012-1021

Volume 53, Number 10, October 2011

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  Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Mario Piattini:
  Business process archeology using MARBLE. 1023-1044
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  Timo O. A. Lehtinen, Mika Mäntylä, Jari Vanhanen:
  Development and evaluation of a lightweight root cause analysis method (ARCA method) - Field studies at four software companies. 1045-1061
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  Reza Meimandi Parizi, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani, Rusli Abdullah, Rodziah Binti Atan:
  Empirical evaluation of the fault detection effectiveness and test effort efficiency of the automated AOP testing approaches. 1062-1083
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  Kenneth Boness, Anthony Finkelstein, Rachel Harrison:
  A method for assessing confidence in requirements analysis. 1084-1096

Special Section on Mutation Testing

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  Benoit Baudry, Jeremy S. Bradbury, Gordon Fraser:
  Guest Editorial for Special Section on Mutation Testing. 1097
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  Jeff Offutt:
  A mutation carol: Past, present and future. 1098-1107
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  Juan José Domínguez-Jiménez, Antonia Estero-Botaro, Antonio García-Domínguez, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo:
  Evolutionary mutation testing. 1108-1123
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  Sergio Segura, Robert M. Hierons, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Mutation testing on an object-oriented framework: An experience report. 1124-1136
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  Garrett Kent Kaminski, Upsorn Praphamontripong, Paul Ammann, Jeff Offutt:
  A logic mutation approach to selective mutation for programs and queries. 1137-1152
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  Ahyoung Sung, Byoungju Choi, W. Eric Wong, Vidroha Debroy:
  Mutant generation for embedded systems using kernel-based software and hardware fault simulation. 1153-1164

Volume 53, Number 11, November 2011

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  Mónica Pinto, Lidia Fuentes, José María Troya Linero:
  Specifying aspect-oriented architectures in AO-ADL. 1165-1182
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  Matteo Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi:
  Data warehouse testing: A prototype-based methodology. 1183-1198
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  Ganesan Kannabiran, K. Sankaran:
  Determinants of software quality in offshore development - An empirical study of an Indian vendor. 1199-1208
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  Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Giancarlo Succi:
  Path dependent stochastic models to detect planned and actual technology use: A case study of OpenOffice. 1209-1226
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  Gert van Valkenhoef, Tommi Tervonen, Bert de Brock, Douwe Postmus:
  Quantitative release planning in extreme programming. 1227-1235
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  F. George Wilkie, I. R. McChesney, Philip Morrow, C. Tuxworth, N. G. Lester:
  The value of software sizing. 1236-1249

Special Section: AMOST 2010

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  Robert Eschbach, Jesse H. Poore:
  Guest Editorial: Special Section from 6th Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Testing (A-MOST 2010). 1250-1251
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  Adenilso da Silva Simão, Alexandre Petrenko:
  Generating asynchronous test cases from test purposes. 1252-1262
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  Angelo Gargantini, Gordon Fraser:
  Generating minimal fault detecting test suites for general Boolean specifications. 1263-1273

Volume 53, Number 12, December 2011

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  Hyun Jung La, Soo Dong Kim:
  Static and dynamic adaptations for service-based systems. 1275-1296
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  Abdul Salam Kalaji, Robert M. Hierons, Stephen Swift:
  An integrated search-based approach for automatic testing from extended finite state machine (EFSM) models. 1297-1318
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  Klaas-Jan Stol, Muhammad Ali Babar, Paris Avgeriou, Brian Fitzgerald:
  A comparative study of challenges in integrating Open Source Software and Inner Source Software. 1319-1336
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  Kambiz Frounchi, Lionel C. Briand, Leo J. Grady, Yvan Labiche, Rajesh Subramanyan:
  Automating image segmentation verification and validation by learning test oracles. 1337-1348
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  Arnaud Brossard, Mourad Abed, Christophe Kolski:
  Taking context into account in conceptual models using a Model Driven Engineering approach. 1349-1369
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  Chia Feng Lin, Ruey-Kai Sheu, Yue-Shan Chang, Shyan-Ming Yuan:
  A relaxable service selection algorithm for QoS-based web service composition. 1370-1381
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  Magne Jørgensen:
  Contrasting ideal and realistic conditions as a means to improve judgment-based software development effort estimation. 1382-1390
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  José A. Cruz-Lemus, Marcela Genero, Danilo Caivano, Silvia Abrahão, Emilio Insfrán, José A. Carsí:
  Assessing the influence of stereotypes on the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams: A family of experiments. 1391-1403