—Build systems are responsible for transforming static source code artifacts into executable software. While build systems play such a crucial role in software development and ma...
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
Clones are code segments that have been created by copying-and-pasting from other code segments. Clones occur often in large software systems. It is reported that 5 to 50% of the ...
Test-driven software development tackles the problem of operationally defining the features to be implemented by means of test cases. This approach was recently ported to the earl...
Filippo Ricca, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Torchi...
—Dynamic software updating research efforts have mostly been focused on updating application code and in-memory state. As more and more applications use embedded databases for st...