Software Research and the Industry

Title: JUnit 3.8 Documented Using Collaborations
Authors: Dirk Riehle
Keywords: JUnit 3.8 Documentation
Abstract: This paper describes the design of the unit testing framework JUnit v3.8. The documentation technique employed is an enhanced version of collaboration-based design, also known as role modeling. In collaboration-based design, objects are viewed as playing multiple roles in different contexts, and different contexts [...]

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Title: The Total Growth of Open Source
Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle
Abstract: Software development is undergoing a major change away from a fully closed software process towards a process that incorporates open source software in products and services. Just how significant is that change? To answer this question we need to look at the overall growth [...]

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Title: Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development
Authors: Amit Deshpande, Dirk Riehle
Abstract: Commercial software firms are increasingly using and contributing to open source software. Thus, they need to understand and work with open source software development processes. This paper investigates whether the practice of continuous integration of agile software development methods has had an impact [...]

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Title: Towards End-User Programming with Wikis
Authors: Craig Anslow, Dirk Riehle
Abstract: When business software fails to provide the desired functionality, users typically turn to spreadsheets to perform simple but general computational tasks. However, spreadsheets enforce a view of the world that consists mostly of tables and numbers rather than the domain concepts users have in mind. [...]

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Title: An XML Interchange Format for Wiki Creole 1.0
Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Umit Yalcinalp
Abstract: Wikis have become an important application on the web and in the enterprise, yet there are no interoperability standards between different wiki engines. We present the first complete XML representation format of Wiki Creole 1.0. Wiki Creole is a community [...]

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Title: An EBNF Grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0
Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Rama Gurram, Matthias Kaiser, Mario Lopes, Umit Yalcinalp
Abstract: Today’s wiki engines are not interoperable. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This technical report presents a complete and validated EBNF-based grammar for Wiki Creole, a community standard for [...]

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