Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

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  • JUnit 3.8 Documented Using Collaborations [Technical Report]

    Author: Dirk Riehle 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 are viewed as task specific collaborations. The…

  • The total growth of open source [OSS 2008]

    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 of open source as well…

  • Continuous Integration in Open Source Software Development [OSS 2008]

    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 on open source software projects. Using…

  • Towards End-User Programming With Wikis [WEUSE 2008]

    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. We are using wikis as a platform for empowering…

  • An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]

    An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]

    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 standard for wiki markup, the language used to write wiki pages. This report presents…

  • An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]

    An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]

    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 wiki markup. Wiki Creole is also the only standard currently available. Wiki Creole is being specified using prose, leading…