Hot code loading allows changing the server code without any noticeable effects for clients.
It is an integral part of the Erlang language and the BEAM runtime. Handling code change …

In this paper, we present the idea of utilising a refactoring tool for implementing extensions
to a programming language. We elaborate the correspondence between the main …

Abstract Model driven development approaches help to alleviate the abstraction gap
between high-level design and actual implementation, to aid design, development and …

Having applications accessible without downtime is no longer an exclusive requirement of
mission-critical applications or traditional domains like communications. Running …

It is always a great challenge to maintain industrial-scale software. It requires a full
understanding and awareness of the different components and their connections to avoid …

Introduction łA programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the
irrelevant. ž (Alan J. Perlis) As a bachelor student, I learned from my future doctoral …

It is always a great challenge to maintain industrial scale software. It requires to fully
understand and be aware of the different components and their connections to avoid …

In this paper, we present a method that transforms event driven Erlang state machines into
high-level state machine models represented in UML. We formalized the transformation …

Software maintenance can be significantly facilitated with a source code analyser tool. Such
a tool is even more powerful, if it provides a fullfledged query language to express queries …