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 ...
Background: The number of reported empirical studies of Open Source Software (OSS) has continuously been increasing. However, there has been no effort to systematically review the ...
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...
An Executable Concept Slice extracts from a program an executable subprogram that captures the semantics of a specified high-level concept from the program. Executable concept sl...
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li...
OBJECTIVE - to determine the consistency within and between results in empirical studies of software engineering cost estimation. We focus on regression and analogy techniques as ...