Large software systems have a rich development history. Mining certain aspects of this rich history can reveal interesting insights into the system and its structure. Previous app...
Program comprehension tools are a valuable resource for navigating and understanding large software systems. Package explorers, fan-in / fan-out views, dependency graphs and cover...
R. Ian Bull, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Jean-Marie F...
As part of a long term project aiming at empowering software maintainers with knowledge based tools we conducted an empirical study on the knowledge they use when doing maintenanc...
Maria Fernanda N. Ramal, Ricardo de Moura Meneses,...
Recent research suggests that large software systems should have a documented system architecture. One form of documentation that may help describe the structure of software syste...
Acknowledging the intense requirement for low power operation in most portable computing systems, this paper introduces the notion of energy efficient software design and proposes ...