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An empirical study of overriding in open source Java
Tempero E., Counsell S., Noble J.  ACSC 2010 (Proceedings of the 33rd Australasian Conference on Computer Science, Brisbane, Australia,  Jan 1, 2010) 3-12, 2010. Type: Proceedings

Inheritance is a pillar of object-oriented programming. Overriding is a subclass’ ability to replace the implementation of a superclass’ method. Even though class inheritance has been around for more than three decades, we actually...

Jan 30 2012
SOA governance: governing shared services on-premise and in the cloud
Erl T., Bennett S., Carlyle B., Gee C., Laird R., Manes A., Moores R., Schneider R., Shuster L., Tost A., Venable C., Santas F.,  Prentice Hall Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2011. 704 pp. Type: Book (978-0-138156-75-6)

Information technology (IT) governance, as it applies to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service orientation, is addressed in this book. Coauthored by Thomas Erl and published as part of the Prentice Hall “Service-Oriented...

Jan 23 2012
Prioritizing tests for software fault diagnosis
Gonzalez-Sanchez A., Piel É., Abreu R., Gross H., van Gemund A.  Software--Practice & Experience 41(10): 1105-1129, 2011. Type: Article

This paper addresses the prioritization of regression tests--that is, determining which tests should be conducted early in the testing process and which ones should be deferred until later, if conducted at all. Typically, tests are...

Jan 16 2012
Solving very sparse rational systems of equations
Cook W., Steffy D.  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 37(4): 1-21, 2011. Type: Article

This paper does exactly what its title says, in the context of linear programming. It begins with an excellent review of the literature on the subject, and then considers four main techniques: Dixon’s p-adic-lifting...

Jan 9 2012
Don’t turn social media into another Literary Digest poll
Gayo-Avello D.  Communications of the ACM 54(10): 121-128, 2011. Type: Article

Twitter, due to its growth and ever-expanding user base, has become a gold mine of information for analysts who mine tweet content as a data source for gauging public opinion. Even The New York Times is discussing this phenomenon [1]. But...

Jan 3 2012
   
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