IRiSS (Information Retrieval based Software Search) is a software exploration tool that uses an indexing engine based on an information retrieval method. IRiSS is implemented as a...
It is not uncommon for modern systems to be composed of a variety of interacting services, running across multiple machines in such a way that most developers do not really unders...
Previous research has identified several challenges that programmers face in answering questions about a code base. To explore ways to overcome those challenges, we have develope...
Curtis Fraser, Chris Luce, Jamie Starke, Jonathan ...
During the life cycle of a software system, the source code is changed many times. We study how developers can be enabled to get insight in these changes, in order to understand t...
Code smells are characteristics of software that indicate that code may have a design problem. Code smells have been proposed as a way for programmers to recognize the need for re...