A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on–going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not struct...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
This paper investigates how maintainability can be established in system integration (SI) projects where maintainers have no direct access to the source code of the third-party so...
— The UML is a collection of 13 diagram notations to describe different views of a software system. The existing diagram types display model elements and their relations. Softwar...
Christian F. J. Lange, Martijn A. M. Wijns, Michel...
Abstract—Development mailing lists play a central role in facilitating communication in open source projects. Since these lists frequently host design and project discussions, kn...
Walid Ibrahim, Nicolas Bettenburg, Emad Shihab, Br...
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...