Everything about Dynamic software updating

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Dynamic software updatingA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: American FilmThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Dynamic software updatingCited 138 times
4. Go sideways: KspliceA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: KGraftA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Dynamic software updating

  Michael Hicks, Scott Nettles · 2005 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 138 citations

• A survey of dynamic software updating

  Habib Seifzadeh, Hassan Abolhassani, Mohsen Sadighi Moshkenani · 2012 · Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 39 citations

• Practical dynamic software updating for C

  Iulian Neamtiu, Michael Hicks, Gareth Stoyle · 2006 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 38 citations

• Dynamic Software Updating Using a Relaxed Consistency Model

  Haibo Chen, Jie Yu, Chengqun Hang · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 36 citations

• Dynamic software updating

  Michael Hicks, Jonathan T. Moore, Scott Nettles · 2001 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 19 citations

• Contextual effects for version-consistent dynamic software updating and safe concurrent programming

  Iulian Neamtiu, Michael Hicks, Jeffrey S. Foster · 2008 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 19 citations

• Dynamic program updating: A software maintenance technique for minimizing software, downtime

  M. E. Segal, O. Frieder · 1989 · Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice · 18 citations

• Dynamic software updating: a systematic mapping study

  Babiker Hussien Ahmed, Sai Peck Lee, Moon Ting Su · 2020 · IET Software · 14 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
• Modern Operating SystemsAndrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos · 1992
• Java software solutionsLewis, John, John E. Lewis Ph. D. · 1997
• Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
• Understanding object-oriented programming with JavaTimothy Budd · 1998
• Using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012Andreas Luszczak · 2012
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• The value and momentum traderGrant Henning · 2009

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