Rcs — a system for version control
- W. Tichy
- Computer ScienceSoftware, Practice & Experience
- 1 July 1985
Basic version control concepts are introduced and the practice of version control using RCS is discussed, and usage statistics show that RCS's delta method is space and time efficient.
Should Computer Scientists Experiment More?
- W. Tichy
- EducationComputer
- 1 May 1998
How the software industry is beginning to value experiments, because results may give a company a three- to five-year lead over the competition is considered.
Design, implementation, and evaluation of a Revision Control System
- W. Tichy
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Software Engineering
- 13 September 1982
Both design and implementation of RCS are evaluated by contrasting RCS with SCCS, a similar system and it is shown that the latter technique improves run-time efficiency, while requiring almost no extra space.
Experimental evaluation in computer science: A quantitative study
- W. Tichy, P. Lukowicz, L. Prechelt, E. A. Heinz
- Computer ScienceJournal of Systems and Software
- 1995
A Controlled Experiment in Maintenance Comparing Design Patterns to Simpler Solutions
- L. Prechelt, Barbara Unger, W. Tichy, Peter Brössler, L. Votta
- Computer ScienceIEEE Trans. Software Eng.
- 1 December 2001
The experiment investigates software maintenance scenarios that employ various design patterns and compares designs with patterns to simpler alternatives and concludes that, unless there is a clear reason to prefer the simpler solution, it is probably wise to choose the flexibility provided by the design pattern.
Hints for Reviewing Empirical Work in Software Engineering
- W. Tichy
- EconomicsEmpirical Software Engineering
- 1 December 2000
These hints are meant to help with judging empirical work and reduce some of the angst associated with accepting empirical papers.
Impact of software engineering research on the practice of software configuration management
- J. Estublier, D. B. Leblang, Darcy Wiborg Weber
- Computer ScienceACM Transactions on Software Engineering and…
- 1 October 2005
The evolution of SCM technology from the early days of software development to the present is discussed, with a particular emphasis on the impact that university and industrial research has had along the way.
The string-to-string correction problem with block moves
- W. Tichy
- Computer ScienceTOCS
- 1 November 1984
An algorithm that produces the shortest edit sequence transforming one string into another is presented and is optimal in the sense that it generates a minimal covering set of common substrings of one string with respect to another.
Case study: extreme programming in a university environment
- Matthias M. Müller, W. Tichy
- Computer ScienceProceedings of the 23rd International Conference…
- 1 July 2001
This paper provides some guidelines for those starting out with extreme programming and observations about the key practices of XP suggest it is difficult to implement XP without coaching.
Delta algorithms: an empirical analysis
- James J. Hunt, K. Vo, W. Tichy
- Computer ScienceTSEM
- 1 April 1998
Results indicate that modern delta compression algorithms based on Ziv-Lempel techniques significantly outperform diff, a popular but older delta compressor, in terms of compression ratio.
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