Programs encounter increasingly complex and fragile mappings to computing platforms, resulting in performance characteristics that are often mysterious to students, practitioners,...
Design pattern detection is a reverse engineering methodology that helps software engineers to analyze and understand legacy software by recovering its design and thereby aiding i...
Markus von Detten, Matthias Meyer, Dietrich Travki...
The collection and use of evidence in Software Engineering practice and research are essential elements in the development of the discipline. This paper discusses the need for evi...
Ray Dawson, Phil Bones, Briony J. Oates, Pearl Bre...
Past research on software comprehension tools has produced a wealth of lessons in building good tools. However our explanations of these tools tends to be weakly grounded in exist...
—This paper reports on experience gained and lessons learned from an intensive investigation of model-driven engineering methodology and technology for application to high-integr...