Java programs distributed through Internet are now suffering from program theft. It is because Java programs can be easily decomposed into reusable class files and even decompiled...
Maintaining software systems becomes more difficult as their size and complexity increase. One factor that makes software maintenance more difficult is the presence of code clones...
Most current object modeling methods and tools have weaknesses both in the concepts of hierarchical decomposition and in the visualization of these hierarchies. Some methods do no...
Stefan Berner, Stefan Joos, Martin Glinz, Martin A...
Software products are often released with missing functionality, errors, or incompatibilities that may result in failures, inferior performances, or user dissatisfaction. In previ...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Mary Jea...
Repeated changes to a software system can introduce small weaknesses such as unplanned dependencies between different parts of the system. While such problems usually go undetecte...