Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Yih-Farn Che...
State machines are a popular method of representing a syshigh level of abstraction that enables developers to gain an overview of the system they represent and quickly understand ...
This paper describes a case study that uses clustering to group classes of an existing objectoriented system of significant size into subsystems. The clustering process is based o...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Cloning in software systems is known to create problems during software maintenance. Several techniques have been proposed to detect the same or similar code fragments in software...