—To improve software quality, static or dynamic verification tools accept programming rules as input and detect their violations in software as defects. As these programming rul...
—More and more current software systems rely on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services typically running on different platforms and often owned by diffe...
Code clone has been regarded as one of factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a code fragment in a source code that is identical or similar to anot...
Software development teams exchange source code in shared repositories. These repositories are kept consistent by having developers follow a commit policy, such as "Program e...
Jan Wloka, Barbara G. Ryder, Frank Tip, Xiaoxia Re...
Most software tools and environments help developers analyze the present and past development states of their software systems. Few approaches have investigated the potential cons...
Yuriy Brun, Reid Holmes, Michael D. Ernst, David N...