The notion of refactoring —transforming the sourcecode of an object-oriented program without changing its external behaviour — has been studied intensively within the last dec...
Serge Demeyer, Filip Van Rysselberghe, Tudor G&ici...
Modification analysis is part of most maintenance processes and includes among other activities, early prediction of potential change impacts, feasibility studies, cost estimation...
Use case diagrams (UCDs) are widely used to describe requirements and desired functionality of software products. However, UCDs are loosely linked to source code, and maintaining ...
Mark Grechanik, Kathryn S. McKinley, Dewayne E. Pe...
Which components of a large software system are the most defect-prone? In a study on a large SAP Java system, we evaluated and compared a number of defect predictors, based on cod...
Tilman Holschuh, Markus Pauser, Kim Herzig, Thomas...
Abstract Architectural patterns are often combined with other, relevant architectural patterns during software architecture design. However, combining patterns effectively remains ...