—Clones are generally considered bad programming practice in software engineering folklore. They are identified as a bad smell and a major contributor to project maintenance dif...
Foyzur Rahman, Christian Bird, Premkumar T. Devanb...
Inspections are an established quality assurance technique. In order to optimize the inspection approach, different reading techniques, such as checklist-based reading and scenari...
Christian Denger, Marcus Ciolkowski, Filippo Lanub...
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
Jacek Ratzinger, Thomas Sigmund, Peter Vorburger, ...
Measuring structural design properties of a software system, such as coupling, cohesion, or complexity, is a promising approach towards early quality assessments. To use such meas...
Impact analysis -- determining the potential effects of changes on a software system -- plays an important role in software engineering tasks such as maintenance, regression testi...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, James La...