Analyzing historical information can show how a software system evolved into its current state, which parts of the system are stable and which have changed more. However, historic...
The area of clone detection has considerably evolved over the last decade, leading to approaches with better results, but at the same time using more elaborate algorithms and tool...
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any informa...
An application framework provides reusable design and implementation for a family of software systems. At the application engineering stage, application developers extend framework...