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ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On the Impact of Aspectual Decompositions on Design Stability: An Empirical Study
Although one of the main promises of aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques is to promote better software changeability than objectoriented (OO) techniques, there is no empiri...
Phil Greenwood, Thiago T. Bartolomei, Eduardo Figu...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Developers ask reachability questions
A reachability question is a search across feasible paths through a program for target statements matching search criteria. In three separate studies, we found that reachability q...
Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers
ICSE
1998
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The Ramp-Up Problem in Software Projects: A Case Study of How Software Immigrants Naturalize
Joining a software development team is like moving to a new country to start employment; the immigrant has a lot to learn about the job, the local customs, and sometimes a new lan...
Susan Elliott Sim, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A theoretical and empirical study of EFSM dependence
Dependence analysis underpins many activities in software maintenance such as comprehension and impact analysis. As a result, dependence has been studied widely for programming la...
Kelly Androutsopoulos, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, ...
CSMR
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Investigation of a Non-Intrusive Approach to Study Comprehension Cognitive Models
Usually software is maintained by people different from those who developed it. In this context the maintenance activities are dominated by the comprehension effort. The study of ...
Marco Torchiano