Empirical studies are crucial to gain evidence on the effects of software engineering methods and tools in defined contexts. However, empirical studies can be costly and thus need...
During software evolution, programmers spend a lot of time and effort in the comprehension of the internal code structure. Such an activity is often required because the available...
A large number of metrics have been proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling. We have been investigating whic...
We present empirical evidence to demonstrate that there is little or no difference between the Java Virtual Machine and the .NET Common Language Runtime, as regards the compilati...
The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristi...