Literature on the topic of code cloning often asserts that duplicating code within a software system is a bad practice, that it causes harm to the system's design and should b...
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
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 ...
—To improve software quality, static or dynamic verification tools accept programming rules as input and detect their violations in software as defects. As these programming rul...
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...