Often, the only sources of information about the evolution of software systems are the systems themselves and their histories. Version control repositories contain information on ...
As part of the evolution of software systems, effort is often invested to discover in what parts of the source code a feature (or other concern) is implemented. Unfortunately, kn...
The success of an object-oriented software development project highly depends on how well the designers can capture the Hot Spots of the application domain, that is, those aspects...
Team collaboration is essential for the success of multi-developer projects. When team members are spread across different locations, individual awareness of the activity of other...
—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...