Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
In the last decade, a great many code clone detection tools have been proposed. Such a large number of tools calls for a quantitative comparison, and there have been several attem...
Code Cloning is regarded as a threat to software maintenance, because it is generally assumed that a change to a code clone usually has to be applied to the other clones of the cl...
Context: Measurement programs have been around for several decades but have been often misused or misunderstood by managers and developers. This misunderstanding prevented their a...
Houari A. Sahraoui, Lionel C. Briand, Yann-Gaë...
Automated cost-effective test strategies are needed to provide reliable, secure, and usable web applications. As a software maintainer updates an application, test cases must accu...
Sara Sprenkle, Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Lor...