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MSR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Examining the evolution of code comments in PostgreSQL
It is common, especially in large software systems, for developers to change code without updating its associated comments due to their unfamiliarity with the code or due to time ...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Ahmed E. Hassan
PPPJ
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Experiences with the development of a reverse engineering tool for UML sequence diagrams: a case study in modern Java developmen
The development of a tool for reconstructing UML sequence diagrams from executing Java programs is a challenging task. We implemented such a tool designed to analyze any kind of J...
Matthias Merdes, Dirk Dorsch
ISESE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating the efficacy of test-driven development: industrial case studies
This paper discusses software development using the Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology in two different environments (Windows and MSN divisions) at Microsoft. In both these...
Thirumalesh Bhat, Nachiappan Nagappan
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
A human study of patch maintainability
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...
Zachary P. Fry, Bryan Landau, Westley Weimer
RTCSA
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Generation and Validation of Models of Legacy Software
The modeling approach is not used to its full potential in maintenance of legacy systems. Often, models do not even exist. The main reasons being that the economic implications an...
Joel Huselius, Johan Andersson, Hans Hansson, Sasi...